For 10 points, name the poet of "Song of Myself," who also eulogized Lincoln in "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain!
This man wrote about a figure that "launches forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself" in "A Noiseless Patient Spider." That work, as well as one that ends with the speaker going outside to look at the sky, "When I (*) Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," is collected in the deathbed edition of this author's major book. Another of his poems, in which the narrator sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" features the line "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." For 10 points, name the poet of "Song of Myself," who also eulogized Lincoln in "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!"
This man wrote about a figure that "launches forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself" in "A Noiseless Patient Spider.
Walt {Whitman}