Leaves of Grass; Walt Whitman

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. New York: MCMXL Edition: Year: 1940 Description: F, 316 pp.; Leaves of Grass was first published in 1855. This 1940 Doubleday, Doran, & Co. Edition comes with an Introduction by Christopher Morley and is Illustrated by Lewis C. Daniel with full page color and black and white prints .The binding is a faded green colored rough burlap texture. This is a beautiful copy of one of the greatest works in American literature. The poetry in Leaves of Grass is often viewed as the definitive break from England with the emergence of a true American voice in the Literature of the United States of America.; Walt Whitman b.1819 - d.1892 Author: Walt Whitman