Song of Ourselves

"Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"-obsessed with the noble and great-Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War"--

Year

2021

Language

English

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Editions

2

Pages

240

ISBN

9780674258983

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