Leaves of Grass

E11806

book poetry collection

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s groundbreaking poetry collection that celebrates the individual, democracy, and the American experience in a free-verse style.

Aliases (2)

Song of Myself ×2
1881–1882 edition of Leaves of Grass ×1

Statements (69)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → poetry collection →
author	Walt Whitman →
controversialFor	departure from traditional poetic forms → frank treatment of sexuality →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
dedicatedTo	Ralph Waldo Emerson (implicitly honored) →
describedAs	groundbreaking American poetry collection →
firstPublicationDate	1855 →
focusesOn	celebration of democracy → celebration of the American people → celebration of the self →
form	free verse →
genre	poetry →
hasEdition	1855 edition of Leaves of Grass → 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass → 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass → 1871–1872 edition of Leaves of Grass → 1881–1882 edition of Leaves of Grass → 1891–1892 "deathbed" edition of Leaves of Grass →
hasIllustration	engraved portrait of Walt Whitman in first edition →
hasSubject	Abraham Lincoln (in elegiac poems) → American democracy → Civil War (in later poems) →
influenced	Allen Ginsberg → American literature → Beat Generation → free verse tradition → modernist poetry →
influencedBy	American democracy → Biblical poetry → Ralph Waldo Emerson →
language	English →
literaryMovement	Realism → Transcendentalism →
narrativeVoice	first-person lyrical speaker →
notablePoem	Crossing Brooklyn Ferry → I Sing the Body Electric → O Captain! My Captain! → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking → Song of Myself → The Sleepers → There Was a Child Went Forth → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d →
numberOfMajorRevisions	multiple over Whitman’s lifetime →
numberOfPoemsInFirstEdition	12 →
originalFormat	self-published volume →
placeOfPublication	Brooklyn → New York City →
printedBy	Brooklyn printer →
publisher	Walt Whitman →
recognizedAs	foundational work of American poetry → masterpiece of American literature →
revisedBy	Walt Whitman →
styleCharacteristic	catalogues and lists → colloquial diction → long lines → repetition and parallelism →
subjectOf	literary criticism →
theme	American experience → body and soul unity → democracy → equality → individualism → labor and the working class → nature → sexuality → spirituality → urban life →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry → O Captain! My Captain! → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking →	collection
American Renaissance → American Renaissance ("Song of Myself") →	associatedWork
I Sing the Body Electric → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d →	partOf
I Sing the Body Electric →	firstPublication
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry →	firstPublishedIn
Leaves of Grass ("1881–1882 edition of Leaves of Grass") →	hasEdition
American literature →	hasNotableWork
The Sleepers →	laterIncludedIn
Leaves of Grass ("Song of Myself") →	notablePoem
Walt Whitman →	notableWork
The Sleepers →	relatedWork
There Was a Child Went Forth →	relatedWorkOfAuthor
Walt Whitman →	subjectOf
Walt Whitman →	wrote