Walt Whitman's "song of Myself": A Mosaic of InterpretationsUniversity of Iowa Press, 1989 - 179 pages "Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as "representing the core of Whitman's poetic vision". The poem was first published without sections as the first of twelve untitled poems in the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The first edition was published by Whitman at his own expense. In 1856 it was called "A Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" and in 1860 it was simply termed "Walt Whitman."--Amazon.com. |
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Version of Song of Myself | 1 |
The Mosaic of Interpretations | 45 |
Whitmans Catalogues | 141 |
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