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When did Song of Myself receive its modern title?

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“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos” — Walt Whitman American poet Walt Whitman, photograph by Mathew Brady.

The poem now known as "Song of Myself" was originally published without a title in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. It received its current title in 1881.1