This author's most famous collection was first published in 1855, although he continued editing it over the next 30 years, when he declared it finished to the end of . This poet described how he could hear America singing in one poem, while describing how our fearful trip is done, in a poem lamenting the death of Abraham* Lincoln. Besides O Captain, My Captain,
this poet also lamented the death of Lincoln in his work, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. For
10 points, name this American poet whose 1855 collection is entitled Leaves of Grass.
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow