Poetry for the Inner Ear: Leaves of Grass

Poetry for the Inner Ear: Leaves of Grass: "Many critics criticize Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. The Boston Intelligencer condemned his poetry as full of “bombast, egotism, vulgarity..."

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