草上漫步：《草叶集》初版序言

Abstract:Whiteman's preface to the first edition of Leaves of Grass is one of the important landmarks of American literary criticism.Like Wordsworth's introduction to the second issue of Lyrical Ballads in 1800，Whiteman's preface 1855 influenced the changing course of poetry by predicting and defining the functions of the poet and the form and range of poetry in the age to come.Furthermore，the preface is a prose of noteworthy lyrical power and intellectual persuasiveness，with a corresponding stylistic authority.

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