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Preface, 1855, to first issue of "Leaves of Grass"

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Section: Published Writings

Leaves of Grass (1855)

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

Section: Literary Manuscripts

Outdoors is the best antiseptic

Poem incarnating the mind

Lofty sirs

Not to Dazzle

Outdoors is the best antiseptic

Lofty sirs

Not to dazzle with profuse

Poem incarnating the mind

No doubt the efflux of the soul

One obligation of great fresh

For example, whisper

American literature must become distinct

The only way in which

And to me each minute

Man, before the rage of

For example, whisper

One obligation of great fresh

American literature must become distinct

The only way in which

Man, before the rage of

It seems to me

Talbot Wilson

It seems to me

Talbot Wilson

I see who you are

Poem of Existence

What shall the great poet be then?

(Of the great poet)

Rules for Composition

It is the endless delusion

steamboats and vaccination

I say that Democracy

The genuine miracles of Christ

In his presence

Rule in all addresses

The new theologies bring forward

Why need genius and the

I want no more of

[Let others say what they]

I tell you greedy smoucher

Do you know what music

I know many beautiful things

[after all]

I am a Student

[A little sum laid aside for burial money—a few clapboards around]

you woman, mother of children

in Poem of Existence

(Of the great poet)

Rules for Composition

In metaphysical points

I see who you are

What shall the great poet

It is the endless delusion

steamboats and vaccination

Rule in all addresses

The genuine miracles of Christ

I say that Democracy

Why need genius and the

The new theologies bring forward

I want no more of

I tell you greedy smoucher

There can be nothing small

I know many beautiful things

And to me each minute

Do you know what music

you woman, mother of children

I am a Student

Who wills with his own

cottonwood

Understand that you can have

In his presence

Sanity and ensemble characterise

[med Cophósis]

med Cophósis

I know a rich capitalist

The idea of reconciliation

women

In Future Leaves of Grass

I know a rich capitalist

A cluster of poems

The idea that in the

The idea of reconciliation

women

The idea that in the

Understand that you can have

Sanity and ensemble characterise

paths of rhyme

Section: Commentary

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

Studies Among the Leaves

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

Walt Whitman

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

American Poets Part 2

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