Project Gutenberg on Nostr: "To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow, All are written to ...

"To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means."

#OTD in 1855.

The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published in Brooklyn.

The poem has its beginnings in an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson called "The Poet" (1844), which expressed the need for the US to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322

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