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Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was first published in 1855. A small book of twelve poems, it was Whitman’s first. He spent  the next 37 years revising and  rewriting it, and when he died in 1892 the book had grown to almost 300 poems.   

The 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass was banned in 1882 by Boston D.A. Oliver Stevens as “obscene literature.”  The first printing, 1000 copies, sold out in a single day. 

 This week is #BannedBooksWeek, which celebrates the freedom to read. Head over to our Instagram stories for more! 

 Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. (Brooklyn, 1855).

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