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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman, 1855

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Dead Poets Society · 1989 · Todd Anderson · Keating's classroom

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Whitman's collection, first published in 1855. "O Captain! My Captain!" is his 1865 elegy for Lincoln, and it later joined the book.

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