A glorious collection from one of America's best-loved and controversial poets From the highly controversialLeaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconicCaptain, oh my captainimmortalised in the filmDead Poets Society, this short collection is the ide...

A glorious collection from one of America's best-loved and controversial poets From the highly controversialLeaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconicCaptain, oh my captainimmortalised in the filmDead Poets Society, this short collection is the ideal introduction to the poetry of Walt Whitman.

One of the greats, he was celebrated both during his lifetime and ever since - he is widely considered to be the father of free verse. During the American Civil War he worked in hospitals caring for the wounded, and his own funeral in 1892 was a public event.

In the words of the modernist poet Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman was 'America's poet . . . he* is * America'.