HE COLLECTED THE VERSES HE HAD WRITTEN, AND PUBLISHED THEM IN ON...

1855, he collected the verses he had written, and published them in one thin volume,“Leaves of Grass” a book which he revised and rewrote all the rest of his life. The bookwas ridiculed by some poets and generally ignored by the others, probably because hisverse forms were not traditional. He had felt that it was necessary to achieve a new poeticform in order to communicate his views. His reputation didn’t grow until after his death,and it reached a high point in 1920s. Since then, Whitman’s style has greatly influencedmodern poets.