Song of Ourselves
Subtitle: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674237162
Subjects: American literature
Description: "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"--