These are the incomparable poems of one of America's greatest poets - an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has even done. Singer, thinker, visionary and citizen extraordinaire, this was Walt Whitman. 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."The text of this newly typeset Signet Classic edition of Leaves of Grass is that of the "Death Bed" or ninth edition, 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.
