Whitman threw down a challengeto the genteel readers of Tennyson and Longfellow through poems of sexual and emotional daring. LEAVES OF GRASS was hailed as the "most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed."
Whitman threw down a challengeto the genteel readers of Tennyson and Longfellow through poems of sexual and emotional daring. LEAVES OF GRASS was hailed as the "most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed."