 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...diverse and vigorous new nation was itself "a poem in our eyes." Letter to Walt Whitman Dear Sir— Iam not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves...Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy.... | |
 | Jay Grossman - 2003 - 292 pages
...strenuously that Whitman cannot be properly read without a full reckoning of his Emersonian essence: I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. 1 find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. ("The Real... | |
 | 李正栓, 吴晓梅 - 2004 - 264 pages
...freedom in form. In 1855, after first reading Leaves of Grass, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to Walt Whitman, "I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed... I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2005 - 228 pages
...December 1855 and with whom he remained in touch, primarily through the mails, for many years. Dear Sir, I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy.... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2003 - 612 pages
...for. He wrote back what has been called the most famous letter in American literary history: Dear Sir, I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...Whitman of Brooklyn, New York, received in 1855 from RW Emerson of Concord, Massachusetts. Dear Sir, I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy.... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2005 - 192 pages
...the "Representative Man," Ralph Waldo Emerson: — [Emerson's letter here reprinted:] "DEAR SIR, — I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. [...] It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging. RW EMERSON." From the Brooklyn... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2005 - 192 pages
...the "Representative Man," Ralph Waldo Emerson: — [Emerson's letter here reprinted:] "DEAR SIR, — I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. [. . .] It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging. RW EMERSON." From the Brooklyn... | |
 | David S. Reynolds - 2005 - 176 pages
...people, places, and things. The philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson called Whitman's volume Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed," saying that it had "the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging."1 Few writers illuminate... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2007 - 422 pages
...Broadway, | New York. POSTMARK: [indecipherable}. Concord | Massachusetts | 21 July | 1855 Dear Sir,1 I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy.... | |
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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. 
