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Leaves of Grass
     
Leaves of Grass
(1855) a collection of poems by Walt Whitman, written in free verse (=poetry without regular patterns), which strongly express his love of nature and his respect for freedom. These poems are important because they made free verse more acceptable and influenced later US writers.
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