Mark Edmundson is University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim fellow, he is author of more than a dozen books, including Self and Soul, Why Teach? and Nightmare on Main Street.

What better way to imbibe the intoxicating stanzas of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself than in the company of Mark Edmundson, author of the brilliantly argued Why Read? In Song of Ourselves Edmundson explicates and amplifies Whitman’s great wake-up call with an exuberant tenderness reached through decades of study and teaching. Here you will find our American ur-text, Whitman’s irreverent bible of New World democracy, revealed.

Mark Edmundson is University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim fellow, he is author of more than a dozen books, including Self and Soul, Why Teach? and Nightmare on Main Street.

What better way to imbibe the intoxicating stanzas of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself than in the company of Mark Edmundson, author of the brilliantly argued Why Read? In Song of Ourselves Edmundson explicates and amplifies Whitman’s great wake-up call with an exuberant tenderness reached through decades of study and teaching. Here you will find our American ur-text, Whitman’s irreverent bible of New World democracy, revealed.

Mark Edmundson is University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim fellow, he is author of more than a dozen books, including Self and Soul, Why Teach? and Nightmare on Main Street.

What better way to imbibe the intoxicating stanzas of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself than in the company of Mark Edmundson, author of the brilliantly argued Why Read? In Song of Ourselves Edmundson explicates and amplifies Whitman’s great wake-up call with an exuberant tenderness reached through decades of study and teaching. Here you will find our American ur-text, Whitman’s irreverent bible of New World democracy, revealed.