Public domain audiobook

Song of Myself

English· 02:23:45· 53 chapters

Walt Whitman's best known poem - a vast and multitudinous celebration of American life in which the 'myself' of the title becomes at one with the universe. 'Song of Myself' was first published in 1855 as part of the collection Leaves of Grass and revised several times for subsequent editions. The version read here appeared as a single poem published in book form by the Roycroft Press of New York in 1904. This version is divided into 52 numbered sections, of 'Cantos', corresponding to the number of weeks in the year. Several of these cantos are well known in their own right, including Canto 6 ('What is grass?'), Canto 11 (The twenty-ninth bather), Canto 25 ('I sound my barbaric yawp!') and Canto 51 ('I am large, I contain multitudes'). - Summary by Phil Benson

View on LibriVox Read the source textReport content

LibriVox recordings are public domain in the United States; copyright status may differ elsewhere.

Song of Myself

Chapters

Front Matter

Canto 1

Canto 2

Canto 3

Canto 4

Canto 5

Canto 6

Canto 7

Canto 8

Canto 9

Canto 10

Canto 11

Canto 12

Canto 13

Canto 14

Canto 15

Canto 16

Canto 17

Canto 18

Canto 19

Canto 20

Canto 21

Canto 22

Canto 23

Canto 24

Canto 25

Canto 26

Canto 27

Canto 28

Canto 29

Canto 30

Canto 31

Canto 32

Canto 33

Canto 34

Canto 35

Canto 36

Canto 37

Canto 38

Canto 39

Canto 40

Canto 41

Canto 42

Canto 43

Canto 44

Canto 45

Canto 46

Canto 47

Canto 48

Canto 49

Canto 50

Canto 51

Canto 52