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´All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...´A selection taken from Walt Whitman´s Leaves of Grass

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´All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...´

A selection taken from Walt Whitman´s Leaves of Grass

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin´s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Whitman´s works available in Penguin Classics are Leaves of Grass and The Complete Poems.

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is regarded as one of America´s most important nineteenth-century poets. Born in Long Island, Whitman grew up in Brooklyn and received a limited formal education. He adopted many professions in his lifetime including printer, essayist, journalist and school teacher. As early as 1850, Whitman turned his hand to poetry and in 1855 he self-published his greatest work, Leaves of Grass.

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