Walt Whitman was a horny guy, for sure. A century later it seems the preeminent book of American poetry, the book that defines American poetry. Throughout his poetry, Whitman displays images of both the physical and social environments as wells as the key interactions and influences it would have… If they don’t understand you, sometimes they ban you. There are various reasons why Walt Whitman possibly titled his highly regarded collection of poems ‘The Leaves of Grass’ one of which being one’s relationship with their natural environment and surroundings. By his death in 1892 Leaves of Grass was finding some acceptance in the literary establishment. This was the case when the great American poem Leaves of Grass was first published and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice found the sensuality of the text disturbing. ... "In the first couple editions of Leaves of Grass, there is a progressive, even radical, political edge. Twayne's Masterwork Studies 92. New York: Twayne, 1992. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, 1855. Twayne's Masterwork Studies 92. "Leaves of Grass" is about twin brothers Bill and Brady(both played by Norton). Was Walt Whitman racist? "Leaves of Grass": America's Lyric-Epic of Self and Democracy. Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and know it … 1 Oliver Stevens, the Boston district attorney who challenged Leaves of Grass on the grounds of obscenity, wrote to Whitman’s Boston publishers James R. Osgood & Company and advised them that Leaves of Grass fell “within the provisions of the Public Statutes respecting obscene literature” and advised Osgood to “withdraw” and “suppress” the book. New York: Twayne, 1992.