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

In Leaves of Grass, published in 1855, Whitman used free verse to celebrate democratic equality and open and sensitive consciousness as keys to a higher human freedom.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 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

It was the Penguin Classics version of the first edition of Leaves of Grass.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green