This collection was greeted at its publication by nearly universal censure for its perceived obscenity, and its author was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior. The work‘s first section is titled Inscriptions, and one poem in that section begins with the lines ―I celebrate myself, an
This collection was greeted at its publication by nearly universal censure for its perceived obscenity, and its author was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior. The work‘s first section is titled Inscriptions, and one poem in that section begins with the lines ―I celebrate myself, and sing myself‖. Other sections include Autumn Rivulets, Drum-Taps,  and Memories of President Lincoln, which contains the poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" . FTP, ― Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", "I Sing the Body Electric",  and ― Song of Myself"  are poems in what collection by Walt Whitman.
This collection was greeted at its publication by nearly universal censure for its perceived obscenity, and its author was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior.