书名：Leaves of Grass草叶集
作者：Walt Whitman沃尔特·惠特曼
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2015
语种：英文
ISBN：9780008110604
商品尺寸：11.1x 1.1x 17.8 cm
包装：简装
页数：162 （以实物为准）

Leaves of Grass《草叶集》是十九世纪美国作家惠特曼的浪漫主义诗集，诗集得名于这样的一句诗：“哪里有土，哪里有水，哪里就长着草。”诗集中的诗歌便像是长满美国大地的芳草，生气蓬勃并散发着诱人的芳香。《草叶集》是世界闻名的佳作，开创了美国民族诗歌的新时代。作者在诗歌形式上有大胆的创新，创造了“自由体”的诗歌形式，打破了传统的诗歌格律，以断句作为韵律的基础，节奏自由奔放，汪洋恣肆，舒卷自如，具有一泻千里的气势和无所不包的容量。
推荐理由：
1.美国诗歌史上伟大的一部诗歌经典，外国诗歌爱好者必读；
2.本版本收录了1855年初版的12首经典作品，含《自己之歌》等名篇；
3.柯林斯经典系列，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解；
4.采用轻型环保纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。
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First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years,“Leaves of Grass” has become one of the most celebrated poetry collections in the history of American literature. A master of free verse, Walt Whitman captures the true spirit of his homeland and its people through his poetry. He explores a wide range of themes, encompassing American identity and cultural values, democracy, nature and the mysteries of the human spirit.
Featuring the poems of the original 1855 edition, “Leaves of Grass” remains an influential work within the American literary tradition, studied and treasured around the world.
Features:
·Life & Times—a fascinating insight into the author, their work and the time of publication
·Glossary of Classic Literature—useful words and phrases at your fingertips, taken fromCollins English Dictionary

Leaves of Grass《草叶集》是19世纪中期美国时代精神的真实写照，代表着美国浪漫主义文学的高峰，也是世界文学宝库中的珍品。19世纪后期至20世纪的100多年里，全世界所有的文学大师几乎都拜读过这本诗集。
Leaves of Grassis a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such as nature, mysticism, mortality, transcendentalism, and democracy. Inspired by personal experiences and observations, Whitman spent almost four decades piecing together the complete work, sharing societal ideals and epiphanies about life that still resonate with readers today.

沃尔特·惠特曼，生于纽约州长岛，美国诗人、人文主义者，被誉为“美国现代诗歌之父”。其一生经历坎坷，早年辍学后进入印刷厂做学徒，后来分别做过排字工人、乡村教师、记者、报纸编辑、木工和泥水匠。他创造了独具一格的自由体诗，代表作品是诗集《草叶集》，这种风格的诗以民主的内容、革新的形式，极大地影响了美国乃至世界诗坛。
Walt Whitman(1819–1892) was an influential American poet and essayist, and is credited with being the founding father of free verse. He first published his culturally significant poetry collection “Leaves of Grass” in 1855 from his own pocket, and revised and expanded it over thirty years. It is an essential element of America’s literary tradition, much taught in schools and universities around the world.

Songof 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 [1854]
There Was a Child Went Forth
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
Great Are the Myths
Classic Literature: Words and Phrases

Songof Myself
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,
It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it,
I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
I am mad for it to be in contact with me.