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.

• | Author: Mark Edmundson
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: April 13, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674237161
• | ISBN-13: 9780674237162