Leaves of Grass

American  

noun

1. a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.

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Leaves of Grass Cultural  

1. (1855) A collection of poems by Walt Whitman, written mainly in free verse. Published with revisions every few years until Whitman's death in 1892, it contains such well-known poems as “I Hear America Singing,” “Song of Myself,” and “O Captain, My Captain.”

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Example Sentences

Even something as seemingly harmless as a reference to Walt Whitman's poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, in John Osborne's play Personal Enemy, was banned because it was seen as a codified reference to homosexuality.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2018

Censortship is American apple pie: "The Grapes of Wrath", The Catcher in The Rye", "The Naked and The Dead", "Howl", "Leaves of Grass", Invisible Man", Southern school texts to this day?

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2016

Rick Mast is a guy who has praised his chocolate’s “fiercely independent, almost Emersonian spirit” and suggested nibbling it while reading Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2016

Hayes painted the exterior a somber sage and olive green, in homage to Walt Whitman’s Greek Revival home in Camden, New Jersey, which he bought after the success of Leaves of Grass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2015

So when the bell rang, I took Leaves of Grass from my bag and then zipped it back up slowly while everyone raced off either to home or to extracur- riculars.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green