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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-13 10:09:49.
(Language: English)
 
Song of the Open Road makes me want to cry with happiness.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-12 10:23:18.
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I am trying to fudge through this which is frustrating because I really enjoy poetry; however this just feels like a really long tangent.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-08 14:49:14.
(Language: English)
i love walt witman and the way he words things
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A reader posted a review at 2009-05-27 21:35:00.
(Language: English)
Classic Americana at its best
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A reader posted a review at 2009-05-10 19:02:26.
(Language: English)
I haven't read it all yet; nor have I read any other reviews. I want to say this, though: Leaves of Grass is beautiful and far more than just a load of allusions to one man's "exuberant spirit", though he certainly embodied this. The poet's life is testament to the power of his words, because it endorses his often made and seldom heeded assertions that the words were authoritative and not merely conjured by the imagination. Whitman was posthumously affiliated to the Transcendentalist movement of his contemporaries (apparently), but his stance wasn't one of philosophical Idealism as an arbitrary predilection (though it certainly was consonant with Idealism) - it was grounded in the transcendental itself. All the references to his homosexuality or eccentricity or brashness fail to embrace the ground upon which Leaves was constructed and, ultimately, don't even begin to do it justice.....
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A reader posted a review at 2009-04-06 21:12:53.
(Language: English)
Whitman is truly a prophet of the Cause.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-23 02:05:12.
(Language: English)
Once I started I couldn't put it down! To me Leaves of Grass is more felt than understood. It's like turning on a beautiful piece of music, closing my eyes, and enjoying the ride.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-21 15:19:36.
(Language: English)
loves it. favorite.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-09 22:46:40.
(Language: English)
A quitessential American voice! Some of the most personal expression by any American artist. Some extremely inspired work! A quintessential American voice!!
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