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en-wikipedia-org-1353		Song of Myself - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1770	225	75	"Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. Following its 1855 publication, "Song of Myself" was immediately singled out by critics and readers for particular attention, and the work remains among the most acclaimed and influential in American poetry.[4] In 2011, writer and academic Jay Parini named it the greatest American poem ever written.[5] In addition to this romanticism, the poem seems to anticipate a kind of realism that would only become important in United States literature after the American Civil War. In the following 1855 passage, for example, we can see Whitman's inclusion of the gritty details of everyday life: Canadian doctor and long-time Whitman friend Richard Maurice Bucke analyzed the poem in his influential and widely read 1898 book Cosmic Consciousness, as part of his investigation of the development of man's mystic relation to the infinite. Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1353.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1353.txt