Walt Whitman Merch
Description: "O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865 about the death of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Immediately successful, the poem was Whitman's first to be anthologized and the most popular during his lifetime. Together with "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", "Hush'd Be the Camps To-day", and "This Dust was Once the Man", it is one of four poems written by Whitman about the death of Lincoln. During the American Civil War, Whitman moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for the government and volunteered at hospitals. Although he never met Lincoln, Whitman felt a connection to him and was greatly moved by Lincoln's assassination.
Description: Walt Whitman, one of the nation’s greatest writers and observers of its people, started on the path to literary immortality in 1855, when he self-published “Leaves of Grass” from a corner in the city of Brooklyn (in modern-day Brooklyn Heights). The design was inspired by his image in the work’s first edition — controversial for its content and the image of an “intellectual” dressing like a common workingman — and by the typefaces used in the collection. (Note: There is also a version available for darker colors in my store.)
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