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One of the best-known and most stirring American poems, brilliantly edited by Stephen Mitchell, now available in the Shambhala Pocket Library series.

Song of Myself may be the greatest poem ever written by an American. First published in 1855 as part of Leaves of Grass, it was revised and expanded by Whitman in subsequent editions in ways that sometimes undermined its original freshness and vitality. Stephen Mitchell has gone back to the first edition and painstakingly compared it with the later versions, substituting only those revisions by Whitman that improved the poem. Here is Whitman at his most wild and raw, as large and lusty as life, fulfilling his promise to all future generations: I stand on this spot with my soul.

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Walt Whitman

Considerado o grande poeta da Revolução Americana – ou até mesmo o maior poeta de toda a literatura americana – o nova-iorquino Walt Whitman (1819-1892) destacou-se no estilo do verso livre, sem restrições métricas, mas também com um pensamento que dessa forma funcionava: sem limites e regras. Dele escreveu Fernando Pessoa: «Introduziu uma nova subjetividade na conceção poética e fez da sua poesia um hino à vida.» Whitman foi, no verdadeiro…

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