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Alexander Norman Jeffares
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Emeritus Professor of English, University of Stirling, Scotland. Author of W.B. Yeats: A New Biography and others; editor of Selected Poems and Prose: Whitman.

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American poet Walt Whitman
Song of Myself, long poem by American poet Walt Whitman, first published in the collection Leaves of Grass in 1855. Considered Whitman’s most important work, and certainly his best-known, the poem revolutionized American verse. It departed from traditional rhyme, meter, and form and introduced…
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