
Gay Wilson Allen
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Professor of English, New York University, 1946–69. Author of The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman and others.
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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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