Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience.In 1855,an answer came with Leaves of Grass.Today,this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement 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.Walt Whitman was a singer,thinker,visionary,and citizen extraordinaire.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 yet contributed." The text presented here is that of the ?Deathbed" or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass,published in 1892.The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece. With a foreword by Billy Collins,an afterword by Peter Davison,and a new introduction by Elisabeth Panttaja Brink. 《草葉集》是十九世紀(jì)美國(guó)作家惠特曼的浪漫主義詩(shī)集,它奠定了美國(guó)詩(shī)歌的基礎(chǔ),并對(duì)美國(guó)及其他國(guó)家的詩(shī)歌藝術(shù)產(chǎn)生了相當(dāng)大的影響。這本詩(shī)集記錄了詩(shī)人一生的思想和探索歷程,也反映出時(shí)代和...Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience.In 1855,an answer came with Leaves of Grass.Today,this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement 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.Walt Whitman was a singer,thinker,visionary,and citizen extraordinaire.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 yet contributed." The text presented here is that of the ?Deathbed" or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass,published in 1892.The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece. With a foreword by Billy Collins,an afterword by Peter Davison,and a new introduction by Elisabeth Panttaja Brink. 《草葉集》是十九世紀(jì)美國(guó)作家惠特曼的浪漫主義詩(shī)集,它奠定了美國(guó)詩(shī)歌的基礎(chǔ),并對(duì)美國(guó)及其他國(guó)家的詩(shī)歌藝術(shù)產(chǎn)生了相當(dāng)大的影響。這本詩(shī)集記錄了詩(shī)人一生的思想和探索歷程,也反映出時(shí)代和國(guó)家的面貌。詩(shī)集取自其中這樣一句詩(shī):“這便是在有土有水的地方所長(zhǎng)出來(lái)的青草?!辈萑~是最普通、最有生命力的東西,象征著當(dāng)時(shí)正在蓬勃發(fā)展的美國(guó)。詩(shī)集通過“自我”感受和“自我”形象,熱情歌頌了資本主義上升時(shí)期的美國(guó)。(展開)