Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” first appeared in 1856 under the title “Sun-Down Poem.” It was one of the twenty new poems added to the twelve originally untitled poems of the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855), the collection that Walt Whitman thought of as a single poem that he continued to expand and revise over the course of nine distinct editions. “Sun-Down Poem” became “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” in the third, and again expanded, edition of Leaves of Grass published in 1860. The poem, in its final form of 132 lines, develops a single...
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