Title: Song of Ourselves
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"--
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Democracy in literature, History, Hospitals, Literature and the war, War work, War and literature, Song of myself (Whitman, Walt)