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LESSON 3 · Verses That Moved the World

PAUSE TO THINK

How many editions of Leaves of Grass did Whitman publish?

He revised it through six editions over 37 years

Whitman first self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 with just 12 poems and kept expanding it until the 'deathbed edition' of 1891–92 held nearly 400. He treated the single book as his life's work.

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