Leaves of Grass so that the imaginative kinship

so that the imaginative kinship of Doré and Coleridge is delightfully evident on every page: the illustrations capture all the moods of the poem in their full intensity

Otto Reinhold Eggers (1882–1964) was one of the architects of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington

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Leaves of Grass so that the imaginative kinshipI am the poet of the body, And I am the poet of the soul. Published in 1855 at Walt Whitman's own expense, this monumental work showcases the uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism. An idealistic philosophical and social movement, Transcendentalism maintained that divinity emanates from all of nature and humanity. Whitman's explosively innovative free verse style confounded many of his contemporaries, who were further shocked