Song Of Ourselves: Walt Whitman And The Fight For Democracy

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.

• | By (Author): Mark Edmundson
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674237161
• | ISBN-13: 9780674237162