Loading images...
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
€7.00

Quay Books
First published in 1855 with Whitman’s own money, Leaves of Grass is a highly sensual collection of verses that became a monument to American poetry.
The journalist, philosopher, clerk, and Civil War nurse spent the following four decades revising and expanding the work from twelve poems to a massive four-hundred-poem compilation.
This masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America’s greatest poets - an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done.
The text presented here is that of the “Deathbed” or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1892. The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece.
Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire. Thoreau called Whitman ‘probably the greatest democrat that ever lived’ and Emerson judged Leaves of Grass as ‘the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.’
More from Quay Books Browse Quay Books All
Fair Faces: Images from a Disappearing Ireland, by John Hall
€6.00
€24.00
75% off
Creative Quest, by Questlove
€8.00
€25.00
68% off
Penguin Parade 4: New Stories, Poems etc. by Contemporary Writers. Edited by Denys Kilham Roberts
€5.00
That Enchantress, by Doris Leslie
€7.00
The Secret Room, by Sandra Block
€4.00
€14.00
71% off
Philip Lynott: Renegade of Thin Lizzy, by Alan Byrne
€4.00
€15.00
73% off
New Arabian Nights and The Dynamiter, by Robert Louis Stevenson, with an Introduction by T. C. Livingstone
€10.00
This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens & 300 Years of English History, by Andrea Wulf & Emma Gieben-Gamal
€10.00
€28.00
64% off