id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6535 Leaves of Grass - Wikipedia .html text/html 5441 588 75 Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892), each poem of which is loosely connected and represents the celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. at last complete — after 33 y'rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old."[25] This last version of Leaves of Grass was published in 1892 and is referred to as the deathbed edition.[26] In January 1892, two months before Whitman's death, an announcement was published in the New York Herald: Walt Whitman wishes respectfully to notify the public that the book Leaves of Grass, which he has been working on at great intervals and partially issued for the past thirty-five or forty years, is now completed, so to call it, and he would like this new 1892 edition to absolutely supersede all previous ones. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6535.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6535.txt