Terry Gross talks with poet Robert Hass about Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.
‘In the first edition, it had no name and in the second, he called it 'Walt Whitman' and then I think he called it 'Poem of Walt Whitman, an American' for a while,’ Hass tells Terry Gross. ‘And it really wasn't until the end of his life that he called it by the name that all schoolchildren know it by, Song of Myself.’ – from NPR Website