The Prelude
William Wordsworth · Romantic · Poetry
American Renaissance · Poetry
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman. Whitman’s expanding poetic project celebrates embodied selfhood, democratic multiplicity, sexuality, labor, and America.
- Date
- 1855–1892
- Origin
- United States
- Genre
- Poetry
- Difficulty
- Challenging
- Length
- Long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
Whitman’s expanding poetic project celebrates embodied selfhood, democratic multiplicity, sexuality, labor, and America.
This work is included in the collection on the basis of bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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