* 1855 – In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

** Walt Whitman registers the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and receives its copyright.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

E. M. Forster borrowed the book's title from Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass.

And also I love that throughout Leaves of Grass he always says ' men and women ,' ' male and female.

The Bible and the works of William Shakespeare have often been the subjects of variorum editions, although the same techniques have been applied with less frequency to many other works, such as Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass,

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 1892 ).

Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.

Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass ( particularly the first edition ) exalted the body and the material world.

Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1844, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices.

Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass.

On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright.

The title Leaves of Grass was a pun.

Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation.

Frontispiece of the 1883 edition of Leaves of Grass.

There have been held to be either six or nine editions of Leaves of Grass, the count depending on how a given scholar distinguishes between issues and editions.

The 1867 edition was intended to be, according to Whitman, " a new & much better edition of Leaves of Grass complete — that unkillable work!

As 1891 came to a close, Whitman prepared a final edition of Leaves of Grass, writing to a friend upon its completion, " L. of G. at last complete — after 33 y ' rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old ".

This last version of Leaves of Grass was published in 1892 and is referred to as the " deathbed edition ".

Walt Whitman wishes respectfully to notify the public that the book Leaves of Grass, which he has been working on at great intervals and partially issued for the past thirty-five or forty years, is now completed, so to call it, and he would like this new 1892 edition to absolutely supersede all previous ones.

By the time this last edition was completed, Leaves of Grass had grown from a small book of 12 poems to a hefty tome of almost 400 poems.

Originally written at a time of significant urbanization in America, Leaves of Grass responds to the impact urbanization has on the masses.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote, " It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote ' Leaves of Grass ,' only that he did not burn it afterwards.

On March 1, 1882, Boston district attorney Oliver Stevens wrote to Whitman's publisher, James R. Osgood, that Leaves of Grass constituted " obscene literature ".

In 1882, Boston district attorney threatened action against Leaves of Grass for violating the state ’ s obscenity laws and demanded that changes be made to several passages from “ Song of Myself ”.

When Walt Whitman came to Boston in March 1860 to meet the publishers for his third edition of Leaves of Grass, he spent a day with Emerson, who had been one of Whitman ’ s earliest supporters, to discuss his new poems.

In 1941 he commanded Panzergruppe 2, also known as Panzergruppe Guderian, in Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, receiving the 24th award of the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 17 July of that year.

Leaves may be harvested several times a year, and when dried may be exported for distillation.

One year after Lovelorn, Leaves ’ Eyes released the follow-up album Vinland Saga in 2005, inspired by Viking Leif Eriksson.

Only one year later, Leaves ’ Eyes released their fourth studio album, Meredead.

As Fanny Fern, she had published Fern Leaves, which sold over 100, 000 copies the year before.

The Rock ' N Roll Express defeated the Heavenly Bodies on April 1, 1994 in Pikeville, Kentucky in a " Loser Leaves SMW match ", where they then competed in the World Wrestling Federation for about a year, before being released in the summer of 1995.

( It was in the first, private, printing of Leaves from a Grass-House in 1923 ; the commercially published edition of the same book, later that year, included it with the title changed to " Aloha House ".

In the year 1942 Mauss was promoted to Colonel, and after leading his troops with small losses from the Battle of Kursk, he was awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross in November, 1943.

Following on the success of " Singing In The Suburbs " another live album titled The Smell Of Gum Leaves was released the next year.

A development towards abstraction had been evident in his paintings, for example, Square Leaves ( 1952 ) and Winter Harbour ( 1955 ) The effect on Heron of the New York painters, together with his move to live at Eagles Nest, overlooking the cliffs at Zennor, that year was a pivotal point in the transformation into his now characteristic language of interlinking forms ; his balancing of colour and space.

On 9 August of the same year and while still on patrol, Lüth was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds ( Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillanten ).

Some of her works include The Woodbridge and Willard Geographies and Atlases ( 1823 ), which she wrote with the American geographer William Channing Woodbridge ; History of the United States, or Republic of America ( 1828 ), A System of Fulfillment of a Promise ( 1831 ), A Treatise on the Motive Powers which Produce the Circulation of the Blood ( 1846 ), Guide to the Temple of Time and Universal History for Schools ( 1849 ), Last Leaves of American History ( 1849 ), Astronography ; or Astronomical Geography ( 1854 ), and Morals for the Young ( 1857 ).

Two singles were released from Mandylion, " Adrenaline / Leaves " and " Strange Machines " ( which charted in the Netherlands ) further helped raise the group's popularity in Europe and the United States.

Some of Kroetz ' plays have been performed in the United Kingdom, for example, in 2002, Through the Leaves at the Southwark Playhouse, in the United States, for example, in 1982, Michi's Blood in New York, as well as in Australia.

He received his Ph. D in 1989 from Johns Hopkins University for the thesis Whitman in revision: the politics of corporealilty and textuality in the first four editions of Leaves of grass He has been a professor in the English department at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, United States.

In the United States, three other " old fashioned " gumdrop candies are also popular: Orange Slices, Licorice Babies, and Spearmint Leaves.

Despite the fact that Hillquit was not a prolific pamphleteer, he did author of a number of substantial books, including a serious academic history of socialism, History of Socialism in the United States ( 1903, revised 1910 — translated into both Russian and German ); works of popularization, such as Socialism in Theory and Practice ( 1909 ) and Socialism Summed Up ( 1912 ); a short theoretical piece, From Marx to Lenin ( 1921 ); as well as a posthumously published memoir, Loose Leaves from a Busy Life ( 1934 ).

Featured matches on the undercard were Road Warriors ( Hawk and Animal ) versus Varsity Club ( Steve Williams and Kevin Sullivan ) for the NWA World Tag Team Championship, Lex Luger versus Barry Windham for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship, Mike Rotunda versus Rick Steiner for the NWA World Television Championship, Midnight Express ( Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane ) and Jim Cornette versus Original Midnight Express ( Jack Victory and Randy Rose ) and Paul E. Dangerously in a Loser Leaves NWA match, Sting versus Butch Reed and Michael Hayes versus Russian Assassin # 1.

Before his achievements as a professor in the United States, he published his 1924 Leaves of a Russian Diary, by ( E. P.

Jim Pons ( born March 14, 1943, Santa Monica, California, United States ) was a bass guitarist and singer for several 1960s rock bands, including The Leaves, The Turtles, and The Mothers of Invention.

The first " LEGEND " style sequel, the story of Dance of the Maple Leaves ( 楓之舞 ) was based on the Warring States Period in Chinese History.