 | 1855 - 396 pages
...1851. "DEAR SIR: I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of 'Leaves of Grass.' I find it the most extraordinary piece of •wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It makes the demand I am... | |
 | William Douglas O'Connor - 1860 - 562 pages
...handsomely bound in muslin. Price $1.25. WALT WHITMAN'S POEMS, Pronounced by Ralph Waldo Emerson to form " the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Price $1.25. LEAYES OE GKASS, OOISTTESISTTS. Proto-Leaf. Walt Whitman. CHANTS DEMOCRATIC... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 pages
...until a letter from Emerson* appeared, expressing a deep sense of its power and magnitude. He termed it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." The edition of about a thousand copies sold off in less than a year. Towards the end... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 702 pages
...and writing poems." Although R. W. Emerson tells us gravely that the poet's " Leaves of Grass " are " the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," we believe better things of his nation. The term, common as it is, has, like many other... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 700 pages
...and writing poems.'' Although E. W. Emerson tells us gravely that the poet's u Leaves of Grass" are "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," we believe better things of his nation. The term, common as it is, has, like many other... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 708 pages
...and writing poems." Although R. W. Emerson tells us gravely that the poet's " Leaves of Grass" are "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," we believe better things of his nation. The term, common as it is, haa, like many other... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1872 - 608 pages
...the Promised Land of a new and distinctive American song. "It is," said Emerson of "Leaves of Grass," "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." An able critic has written forcibly on the genius of this first important work of Whitman.... | |
 | 1880 - 800 pages
...of Carlyle." As for Whitman, it is five-andtwenty years since Emerson termed the Leaves of Grass " the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed ;" and we are beginning to believe that poor Whitman is being forgotten by all but his... | |
 | John Macleay Peacock - 1880 - 198 pages
...in the Author's Edition of "complete" works now in circulation. Emerson describes Leaven of Grax* as "the most extraordinary piece of Wit and Wisdom that America has yet contributed. ... I have great joy. in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...following letter : — " I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am... | |
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I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. 
