page_title: O Captain! My Captain!
hierarchical_section_title: O Captain! My Captain!
caption_attribution_description: English: Slip proof with Whitman's autograph corrections for a new edition of "O Captain! My Captain!" (firstly published in 1865) Italiano: Bozza di stampa con correzioni autografe di Walt Whitman per la ristesura del 1871 della poesia O Captain! My Captain!
context_page_description: "O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.
  Emphasizing grief and sorrow, the poem was first published in the pamphlet Sequel to Drum-Taps alongside another Lincoln elegy—"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"—and 16 other poems by Whitman regarding the American Civil War. It was later included in Whitman's comprehensive collection Leaves of Grass, beginning with its fourth edition published in 1867.
context_section_description: "O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.
  Emphasizing grief and sorrow, the poem was first published in the pamphlet Sequel to Drum-Taps alongside another Lincoln elegy—"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"—and 16 other poems by Whitman regarding the American Civil War. It was later included in Whitman's comprehensive collection Leaves of Grass, beginning with its fourth edition published in 1867.
caption: Printed copy of "O Captain! My Captain!" with revision notes by Whitman, 1888[1]
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