Leaves of Grass — LIT2578.01
This 2-credit course is an introduction to Walt Whitman鈥檚 Leaves of Grass, which inaugurated a distinctly American free verse by breaking with European formal traditions of poetry. We will read the entire original 1855 version (a self-published volume with only twelve poems) as well as selections from some of the subsequent editions that Whitman published over his lifetime (including the 1892 鈥渄eathbed鈥 edition, which contains 383 poems!).