Reviews

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

socorrobaptista's review against another edition

3.0

Entendi claramente agora porque o autor é chamado o poeta da democracia. Já tinha lidos vários dos poemas isoladamente, mas é a primeira vez que mergulho neste livro completo. Uma boa experiência.

timsumerlin's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

cris's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

chicken0death's review against another edition

5.0

This is one of my favorite books. When I'm feeling down, I read this book. When I'm feeling particularly full of life, I read this book. When spring comes, I read this book.

It speaks to me in ways few books ever have. I'm constantly finding new passages and poems that resonate with me. It is a book that constantly grows with me.

demux's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective

5.0

this has shaped me

“I too am not a bit tamed .... I too am untranslatable,
 I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”

annkitsch's review against another edition

3.0

These poems felt like that one audio u hear on tiktok/ Instagram reels where Beyoncé’s crazy in love instrumental plays and someone is going “Ammeyrican dreamm, best countrayy”

zarahzoe's review against another edition

4.0

I read the penguin classics edition of this and was a bit unsatisfied to find out that it was not the final version that Whitman published. It does not contain O Captain, my Captain and When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, and it made me sad..

Still! Those Words! hot damn this was beatiful! I have never read a poem that was 120 pages long but I loved every verse of it.

jayrinehart's review against another edition

inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

fluffernutterfriday's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

NOTE: I read a 600-page version from 1930 that captured pretty much everything  he's  ever written, so my reading experience was definitely  different. 

I mean, it's Walt. Fully worth the hype, though I'll need to parse back through and really drink these poems up, slowly, one by one, when I'm not spending so much attention and curiosity on graduate school. The autobiographical piece at the end was a perfect little bow on the work. I loved hearing what he wanted to do, and itnresonated deeply with my own purpose as a writer. 

rebeccazh's review against another edition

i only read song of myself and i sing the body electric but i loved how celebratory they were of life and the human body. he was reveling in the simplest of pleasures, like a blade of grass or a lover's touch, but also so appreciative of the sublime