In fact, Leaves of Grass may be comparable to Rembrandt's ... and even a quote from Emerson on the book's spine — possibly the first example of "blurbing" in print, even though Emerson never ...

Arranged here and in the "Other Writings and Publications" section is a selection of editions of "Leaves of Grass" that span the period from 1855 to 1955, from the exceedingly rare early editions to ...

A good example is this, where to the original lines ... where he says of the beginnings of Leaves of Grass that, although he had "made a start before," all might have come to naught ...

14, No. 2, Fall 2021 Printers of the Kosmos: Designing a Vari... Printers of the Kosmos: Designing a Variorum of the First Leaves of Grass This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

To name an oft-cited paradigmatic example, the attempt can include the ... of the eighteenth century that a “Newton of a leaf of grass” would never see the light of day. The statement ...

Critic David Reynolds has said: “Lincoln, as Whitman saw him, was virtually the living embodiment of the ‘I’ of Leaves of Grass. …If, as Whitman said, Leaves of Grass and the war were one, they ...