{"product_id":"leaves-of-grass","title":"Leaves of Grass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1855, Walt Whitman’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e announced a radically new voice in American poetry: expansive, democratic, sensuous and unafraid to embrace the ordinary alongside the sublime. Its first edition contained just twelve untitled poems, including the beginnings of what would become “Song of Myself”, in which a wandering, self-questioning speaker celebrates the body, the soul and the shared substance of human experience. Rejecting conventional poetic forms in favour of long, sweeping lines and a rhythm shaped by speech, Whitman creates a poetry as restless and open as the young nation he sought to describe. Workers, lovers, strangers, landscapes and city streets all enter his vision, each granted a place in an immense and evolving portrait of life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhitman revised and enlarged \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e throughout his life, transforming it from a slim, self-published volume into the defining work of his poetic career. Its celebration of individuality, sensuality, nature and human solidarity challenged the moral and literary conventions of nineteenth-century America, provoking both outrage and admiration. Beneath its exuberant confidence lies a profound tenderness towards the overlooked and the marginalised, alongside an enduring search for connection between the self and the wider world. A landmark of American literature, the collection helped shape the possibilities of modern poetry and remains a living invitation to see the ordinary world anew.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Walt Whitman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walt Whitman, 1855\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64026245300554,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/leaves-of-grass","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}