'Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop some where waiting for you.'
- Song ofMyself
First published by Walt Whitman in 1855, Leaves of Grass introduced the world toa new and uniquely American form of poetry. Alive with the mythical strengthand vitality that epitomised the American experience in the nineteenth century,and published here with rarely collected illustrative woodcuts by RockwellKent, Leaves of Grass continues toinspire, uplift and unite.