Whitman's sprawling free-verse celebration of the self, the body, democracy, and America. The revolutionary book of poems he revised all his life.
Books mentioned in Leaves of Grass (1)
Iliad by Homer: “…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 by Rebecca Makkai: “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 by David Foster Wallace: “He was down there reading Leaves of Grass. He was going through a Whitman period, part of grieving for Himself, he said.”
It by Stephen King: “books signed by writers long since dead (among the signed editions were Moby Dick and Whitman's Leaves of Grass)”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “Whitman, in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, expresses the disavowal of 'style'...”
Contact by Carl Sagan: Chapter epigraph: "—WALT WHITMAN Leaves of Grass 'Song of the Open Road' (1855)"
10:04 by Ben Lerner: “Or the two first editions on the market of Leaves of Grass.”
The Disappearers by Marlon James: “And The City and the Pillar, A Boy's Own Story, Leaves of Grass.”