TY - JOUR AB - <p>Explores how Whitman defined issues of class in his poetry in an effort to address the working people of the United States and describes the poet's "attack on oppositional categorization" as an effort "to provide a common ground between the poet and his people," showing that Whitman "removed his subjects to a 'place' away from the 'pulling and hauling' in order to preserve his own poetic role as the transcender of oppositions."</p> AU - Barbara Clancy DA - 1996/7// DO - 10.13008/2153-3695.1492 IS - 1 VL - 14 PB - University of Iowa PY - 1996 TI - "If He Be Not Himself the Age Transfigured": The Poet, the "Cultivating Class," and Whitman's 1855 "Song of Myself" T2 - Walt Whitman Quarterly Review UR - https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/wwqr/article/id/25956/ ER -