Bilingual Classics - Leaves of Grass (Chinese/English)

Bilingual Classics is a bilingual book series featuring classic literature from the most famous authors in the world.

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself", "I Sing the Body Electric", and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd". Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.

Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass (particularly the first edition) exalted the body and the material world.

Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it. However, much like Emerson, Whitman does not diminish the role of the mind or the spirit; rather, he elevates the human form and the human mind, deeming both worthy of poetic praise.

Now you can enjoy this landmark of world literature in two languages. These selected poems are presented with the original English texts, as well Chinese translations, making it an excellent way for children to cultivate their bilingual language abilities. This volume has 195 pages.