Prints & Photographs DivisionĪn outpouring of communal grief and numerous efforts to memorialize the fallen leader followed Lincoln’s death.
John White Alexander, artist photograph of a painting. Prints & Photographs Divisionīy the 1880s, Whitman was asked to recite the poem so often he said, “I’m almost sorry I ever wrote ,” though it had “certain emotional immediate reasons for being.” Walt Whitman. Douglas Volk, artist photograph of a painting. Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait. While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring.įallen cold and dead. The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won O CAPTAIN! my captain! our fearful trip is done Whitman rarely used rhymed, rhythmically regular verse, but here it creates a somber, yet exalted, effect. Published to immediate acclaim in the Saturday Press, “O Captain! My Captain!” was the only poem from Whitman’s compendium, Leaves of Grass, widely reprinted and anthologized during his lifetime. Whitman’s February 9 letter to the publishersĭetails his changes for punctuation and entire lines of text. Apparently, the Riverside editors published an earlier version of the poem. He revised the poem in 1866 and again in 1871. Whitman wrote “O Captain! My Captain!” in response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Walt Whitman Papers (Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection). “I send you a corrected sheet.” Walt Whitman Papers: Literary file Poetry O Captain! My Captain! Printed copy with corrections, 1888. “ O Captain! My Captain!” “Somehow you have got a couple of bad perversions in ‘O Captain,'” he wrote. 32 calling attention to mistakes in their recently printed version of his poem,
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On February 9, 1888, Walt Whitman penned a note to the publishers of The Riverside Literature Series No.
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