Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical EditionRoutledge, 2013 M10 18 - 224 pages An intelligent introduction to this famous poem, including contextual information, an overview of critical reception and critical extracts, key passages with commentary and annotation, and the poem in its full 'final' 1881 edition. |
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