Mark and Seamus turn to Walt Whitman's ‘Song of Myself’, from Leaves of Grass (1855), for Mark ‘one of the most exciting things literature has to offer’. They discuss the extraordinary physicality and ...

In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" or just "Walt Whitman" before assuming the title "Song of Myself") the first person narrator eventually reveals ...

On Saturday, May 3 at 4 p.m., the Clark Art Institute presents “Walt Whitman Comes to the Clark,” a combination film ...

Walt Whitman ... closely one of the poems in each edition. Divide the class into four groups and assign each group one of these editions and poems: 1855 "Song of Myself"; 1860 "A Word Out ...

Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman ... poem in which he struck the keynote of his defiant chant: "I celebrate myself." ...

Walt Whitman was a late bloomer ... opening with an uncanny, world-changing poem, “Song of Myself.” Leaves of Grass was scandalously original in both form and content. For decades it faced ...