American Literature / Unit 10 AML 0903 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*Leaves of Grass* and Its Editions
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The idea
Whitman published Leaves of Grass himself in eighteen fifty-five, a thin book of twelve untitled poems, and spent the rest of his life enlarging and revising it through edition after edition until the last, so that the book grew with the man and with the country.
In practice
One book, rewritten for a lifetime.
Where people slip
The editions differ enough to change readings.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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