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1855

Showing 20 works across all media from 1855

Fiction

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman
1855 · 703 pages

Whitman threw out rhyme and meter to write the body, the country, and himself at full voice. In "Song of Myself" he speaks straight at you, delighted that you finally showed up.

★ 9.3
Fiction

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell
1855 · 450 pages

Gaskell moves Margaret Hale from a soft southern parish to a smoke-blackened cotton town, where she despises the mill owner Thornton until a strike teaches her what masters and workers each risk.

★ 6.6
Poem

I think I could turn and live ahile with te animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied...not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

Walt Whitman
Song of Myself · 1855
★ 3.9