# Whitman Illuminated

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- Book: [Whitman Illuminated](https://www.bookquiver.com/walt-whitman/whitman-illuminated) ([Whitman Illuminated.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/walt-whitman/whitman-illuminated.md))
- Authors: [Walt Whitman](https://www.bookquiver.com/walt-whitman)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7351-253-5
- Published: 2014-11-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Walt Whitman's iconic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass , has earned a reputation as a sacred American text. Whitman himself made such comparisons, going so far as to use biblical verse as a model for his own. So it's only appropriate that artist and illustrator Allen Crawford has chosen to illuminate - like medieval monks with their own holy scriptures - Whitman's masterpiece and the core of his poetic vision, 'Song of Myself'. Crawford has turned the original sixy-page poem from Whitman's 1855 edition into a sprawling 234-page work of art. The handwritten text and illustrations intermingle in a way that's both surprising and wholly in tune with the spirit of the poem - they're exuberant, rough and wild. Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself is a sensational reading experience, an artefact in its own right and a masterful tribute to one of America's greatest poets.