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By Walt Whitman
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
- Source
- Leaves of Grass (first edition), 1855 · Preface (archive page n8; the preface pages carry no number in the archive's list)
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- Internet Archive (Walt Whitman Archive copy of the 1855 first edition, Brooklyn, New York, scanned by Google Books)
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From the Preface to the first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (Brooklyn, New York, 1855). Whitman dropped this Preface from later editions.