Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy

by Mark Edmundson

Book Overview

In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood.

Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don't. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself.

Esteemed cultural and literary thinker Mark Edmundson offers a bold reading of the 1855 poem, included here in its entirety. He finds in the poem the genesis and development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674237161
• ISBN13: 9780674237162
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"