O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman wrote this dirge for the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Published in the New York City Saturday Press to immediate acclaim, O Captain! My Captain! was widely anthologized during Whitman's lifetime. Restlessly creative, Whitman was still revising O Captain! My Captain! decades after its creation. Pictured here is a corrected proof sheet of the poem, which was readied for publication in 1888.
Walt Whitman wrote this dirge for the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Published in the <em>New York City Saturday Press</em> to immediate acclaim, O Captain! My Captain! was widely anthologized during Whitman's lifetime. Restlessly creative, Whitman was still revising O Captain! My Captain! decades after its creation. Pictured here is a corrected proof sheet of the poem, which was readied for publication in 1888.