Leaves of Grass on Iliad: “…priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene, The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas, Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur, The Cid, Roland at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen,…”
The Great Believers on Leaves of Grass: “on the kitchen counter, in a shopping bag, were other things: a half-empty vodka bottle, Nico's blue Top-Siders, a blank postcard from Vancouver, pewter cuff links in a velvety box, Leaves of Grass.”
Infinite Jest on Leaves of Grass: “He was down there reading Leaves of Grass. He was going through a Whitman period, part of grieving for Himself, he said.”
It on Leaves of Grass: “books signed by writers long since dead (among the signed editions were Moby Dick and Whitman's Leaves of Grass)”