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Excerpt from Walt Whitman Abroad: Critical Essays From Germany, France, Scandinavia, Russia, Italy, Spain and Latin America, Israel, Japan, and India Rhythm and Language in the First Edition of Leaves of Grass, by Jean Catel (translated by Roger Asselineau) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.