{"product_id":"2940013393882","title":"Leaves of Grass [Complete 35 Books, With ATOC]","description":"Come, said my soul,\u003cbr\u003e     Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)\u003cbr\u003e     That should I after return,\u003cbr\u003e     Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,\u003cbr\u003e     There to some group of mates the chants resuming,\u003cbr\u003e     (Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)\u003cbr\u003e     Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on,\u003cbr\u003e     Ever and ever yet the verses owning—as, first, I here and now\u003cbr\u003e     Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Walt Whitman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. Among the poems in the collection are \"Song of Myself\", \"I Sing the Body Electric\", and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, \"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is notable for its delight in and praise of the senses during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass (particularly the first edition) exalted the body and the material world. Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it. However, much like Emerson, Whitman does not diminish the role of the mind or the spirit; rather, he elevates the human form and the human mind, deeming both worthy of poetic praise.","brand":"Ladislav Deczi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079436419312,"sku":"2940013393882","price":3.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013393882_p0.jpg?v=1763580241","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013393882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}