Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose

This book is part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author and a critical response. This is a collection of all of Whitman’s poetry and his most important prose. Whitman deliberately cast himself as a barbarian , one of the roughs , so as to signal his rejection of elitism. His poetry is democratic, socially inclusive, sexually and emotionally daring, exploring not only the recesses of his world but also the recessses of his mind.