Reviews for Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (A Norton Critical Edition)

The average rating for Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (A Norton Critical Edition) based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-04-02 00:00:00 Xxx Xxx They are lines in Song Of Myself that almost feel alien, as though a human man from this planet could not have written such beautiful, generous, true, and altruistic words. Inspired by the greatest summits of the human possibility, without arrogance or pride and infused with humanism, the all-encompassing kind, Whitman's poetry is mystical to me, yet never remote. He seems to have been given the key to Arcadia, that pastoral and wonderful secret place the Greeks dreamed about. As a bisexual person, I have yet to read anything that embodies the essence of how I view my own bisexuality than here, in Song Of Myself where at one time Whitman sleeps peacefully in the arms of his male lover without ever diminshing the love he feels for the woman he holds in his heart. Fluid, natural, without guilt but always accountable. I love him so much. He is a gentle giant and a friend and father to us all who read him. :-)

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-28 00:00:00 James Dunlap Genius. The verse cannot be parsed in a single reading, but as you study the text Whitman's optimistic, sprawling, solipsistic vision of America sucks you in.