沃尔特·惠特曼

《草叶集》是美国诗人华特·惠特曼于1855年出版的诗集。收录《自我之歌》、《我歌唱带电的肉体》、《走出永远摇晃的摇篮》等作品，以及惠特曼写予遇刺的美国总统亚伯拉罕·林肯的挽歌《当去年的紫丁香在庭前绽放》。惠特曼费尽其一生著成《草叶集》，在数个版本中不断修订之直至辞世。 …

Considered by many to be the quintessential American poet, Walt Whitman (1819-92) exerted a profound influence on all the American poets who came after him. And it was with this inspired, oceanic medley, "Song of Myself" (which in the first editions of Leaves of Grass was still nameless), that this great poet first …