热点素材:1855年7月4日,只是一个学徒的他自费出版了自己的第一本诗集。不仅一本都没有卖掉,反受到铺天盖地的批评与嘲笑。就在他快要绝望时,一位大诗人写了一封信给他:“这部才华横溢的诗集,是美国至今所能贡献的最了不起的聪明才智的精华。”这真诚的夸奖和赞誉,让他从此坚定了信念,后来成为现代美国诗歌之父——瓦尔特·惠特曼,那本诗集就是《草叶集》。而当年那位写信的诗人,叫爱默生。 Hot material: July 4, 1855, just an apprentice, he published his own first book of poems at his own expense. Not only did one not sell it, it was overwhelmingly criticized and laughed at. Just as he was desperate, a great poet wrote a letter to him: “This talented collection of poems is the essence of America’s most outstanding intelligence so far.” “This sincere compliment and praise , So that he since firm belief, and later became the father of modern American poetry - Walter Whitman, the book is the ”grass leaves set." The poet who wrote that year, called Emerson.