《草叶集》是一部奇书，从内容到形式都颠覆了在它之前美国诗人们遵循的欧洲诗歌的创作模式，而且是有意识的颠覆。尽管它从问世至今饱受争议褒贬，但却被尊崇为地道的美国诗歌的诞生标志，是19世纪世界文学史中最重要的诗集之一。书的内容如此浩繁，从中史学家看到了19世纪的美国历史，思想家看到了民主自由平等观念的美国式表达，哲学家看到了万物皆有灵和灵魂不朽的信念，旅行者看到了美国野性旷莽的自然风光和壮丽沸腾的城市景象，青年人读出了对肉体和性的赞美，老年人看到了对死亡的坦然无惧......惠特曼在美国与世界文学史上的重要性怎么形容都不过分。此译本由译者邹仲之根据英国华兹华斯诗文图书馆出版社2006年出版的《沃尔特•惠特曼诗全集》 译出，在"临终版"草叶集的基础上还增添了十余首作者去世后附编的《老年的回声》，以及数十首之前未收入诗集的作品。因此，这部新版的《草叶集》可谓迄今为止国内收录最完整、最全面的惠特曼诗集。另外，译者在翻译过程中参考了楚图南和李野光先生合译的《草叶集》（人民文学出版社，1987）以及赵萝蕤先生译的《草叶集》（上海译文出版社，1991），既保留借鉴了前辈的成果，又在前人的高度上以一种粗粝平易的语风重新诠释了惠特曼这位平民诗人，并获得了翻译界前辈屠岸先生的肯定。(Leaves of Grass is a wonderful book. It consciously overturns the creation mode of European poetry that American poets followed before it from content to form. Although it has been controversial since being published, it is admired as the mark of the birth of American poetry. It is one of the most important collections of poems in the world's literary history in the Nineteenth Century. The content of the book is so voluminous that historians see American history of the Nineteenth Century, thinkers see American expression of the concept of democracy, freedom and equality therefrom; philosophers see that all things on earth have souls and the belief of immortal souls therefrom; travelers see the wild natural scenery and urban scene of America therefrom; young people read the praise of human body and sex therefrom; the aged see the boldness for death therefrom... Whitman's importance in the history of American and world's literature cannot be too much described. This translation is translated by translator Zou Zhongzhi according to The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman published by Wordsworth Poetry Library Publishing House in 2006. This book also adds Old Age Echoes additionally edited after the death of the author, including more than 10 poems and more than 10 works that haven't been collected. Therefore, this new edition of Leaves of Grass is the most complete and comprehensive domestic collection of Whitman's poems so far. In addition, the translator referred to Leaves of Grass jointly translated by Mr. Chu Tunan and Mr. Li Yeguang (People's Literature Publishing House, 1987) and Leaves of Grass translated by Mr. Zhao Luorui (Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 1991). It not only retains the achievements of the predecessors, but also redefines Whitman, a civilian poet, with a rough and plain locution at the height of the predecessors. Therefore, it is affirmed by Mr. Tu An, a predecessor in the field of translation.)