Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)
by Walt Whitman
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Book Reviews of Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)
Book Review: Poetry of the Ages
Summary: 5 Stars
You might want to read Richard Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness to more fully grasp the spiritual significance of Leaves of Grass. Bucke was a friend and contemporary of Whitman who placed him in the same league as the Christ, the Buddha, and other spiritual giants. Unfortunately, we seem more interested in Whitman's purported homosexuality than in the profundity of his life and work. Every line in Leaves of Grass has a deeper, spiritual meaning, and the careful reader can discover a New World waiting within its pages.Book Review: Spend some time with this fine poet
Summary: 5 Stars
I would heartily encourage you to spend some timewith this book. Whitman is a joy to read and his
love affair with language is extremely contagious.
As a poet, Whitman expanded the allowable bounds
of poetic expression and as such was one of the true
founders of free verse as a mode of expression.
He is one of the best voices in America's young
cutural foundation. This is a book which young
poets should spend a summer with: it will open your
imagination to a new degree
Book Review: As Kiss As Does
Summary: 3 Stars
I hate literary types who venerate books and authors like some Virgin Mary and cannot see the problems-inherent. This book is REALLY BORING. Yes, he does have an amazing style of poetry that revolutionized literature, but it's still BORING. His poems, like Song of Myself drag on for like 100 pages rumbling over all sorts of thoughts, events, seemingly haphazardly chunked together without any real logical thread, and just DRAGS & DRAGS. I dare anyone to read this book cover to cover more than once.Book Review: the American's American
Summary: 3 Stars
Several reviewers state that Whitman is a "real American." Fair enough. But when his "bravado and self-love" are defended in the name of some sort of humility then someone is projecting their own romantic reading onto a person who was a self-proclaimed imperialist. He was hardly someone who wanted everyone to find their own truth. Of course, in today's post-9/11 America, being an imperialist certainly makes Whitman seem like a contemporary American.Book Review: will certainly outlast Bill & Monica
Summary: 5 Stars
Whitman set out, like James Joyce, to define and recreate his nation's literature, and perhaps the nation itself, and to express his wildest ideas, glorying in their contradictions. The amazing thing is that he succeeded. There's so much in this book, I wouldn't know where to begin to say any more, except to suggest that opening pages at random over a long period of time is my preferred method of reading this book.