Song of Myself
Author(s): Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of all ages and races. Revolutionary in style and controversial in content when it was first published in 1855, Whitman's masterwork has since inspired generations with its intoxicating rhythms and images, and its inclusive, praiseful joy. The Original 1855 Text.
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"Grand but intimate, earthy but also dreamy" Observer "Whitman had a fluid personality that made him able to "merge" invisibly, and with great empathy, with the images of other people and events that lodged in his mind...unprecedented assembling of rhythm, sound, language and images" New York Times "The great unrhymed, long-lined, self-celebratory sensation of the 1850s" Lost Angeles Times
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage Classics
- : 31 July 2015
- : 01 October 2015
- : books
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- : Walt Whitman
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