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The first edition of the novel was published in 1855, and was written by walt whitman. Leaves of grass song of myself a song for occupations to think of time the sleepers i sing the body electric faces song of the answerer europe the 72d and 73d years of these states a boston ballad there was a child went forth who learns my lesson complete great are the myths. Lay within its darksome bed, to itself it fell atalking, and this is what it said. Showing the influence of a uniquely american form of mysticism known as transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture of the time, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free verse style and previously unmentionable subject. The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore, and darkcolord searocks, and of hay in the barn. Leaves of grass is one of his most wellknown poetry collections. First published in 1855, whitman continued to expand and revise this work from 12 poems to nearly 400 poems in 1891 when he published his deathbed edition. In addition, the term of grass is one of the focus within the poem as he spends.