In fact, Leaves of Grass may be comparable ... with 20 new poems, as well as Emerson's complimentary letter reprinted in full, and even a quote from Emerson on the book's spine — possibly ...

Critic David Reynolds has said: “Lincoln, as Whitman saw him, was virtually the living embodiment of the ‘I’ of Leaves of Grass. …If, as Whitman said, Leaves of Grass and the war were one, they ...

I said "Put Leaves of Grass there. Nobody can see through that." "Not even the author?" he said, with a whimsical lifting of the brows. Much of the talk was about himself and his poems ...