Leaves of Grass

These are the incomparable poems of one of America's greatest poets -- an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Singer, thinker, visionary and citizen extraordinaire, this was Walt Whitman. Thoreau called Whitman "probably the greatest democrat that ever lived," and Emerson judged Leaves of Grass as "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has ever contributed."