num_pages: 263
description: I contain multitudes, Walt Whitman says in his great poem Song of Myself, and this multitudinousness, expressed with a genius for language and an imaginative energy as powerful as that possessed by any writer, has come to define the inner meaning - the mystic idea - of the American experience. Though he himself lived most of his life in and around New York City, Whitman's poetry encompassed the sweep of a continent.
language: English
title: Selected Poems by Whitman
titlecomplete: Selected Poems by Whitman
genres: American, The United States Of America, Poetry, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Literature, Adult, Classics, 19th Century, Poetry Plays
ratings_count: 2356
publisher: Thorndike Pr