The Portable Walt WhitmanPenguin, 2003 M12 30 - 608 pages A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories |
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... nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperament were making our western wits fat & mean. I give you joy of your free brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they ...
... nature to most readers today, were not available for Whitman; and in fact, as ways of understanding male-male eros, they are markedly different from the strategy he adopted. For most of the twentieth century, biographers persisted in ...
... nature, or the animal being against which moral humanity asserts itself, with institutions such as marriage being a kind of toilettraining for sexual desire. Whitman treats erotic life as a distinctive kind of experience, valuable ...
... nature of self-awareness. No matter what we are, we can always regard it with some distance. In “As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life,” this “real Me” returns to mock the speaker, “with peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I ...
... nature to expand itself in numberless and even conflicting directions.” The resulting book, Democratic Vistas, is a peculiar mix. It is in treatise form, yet without systematic argument. Whitman lacks Tocqueville's grasp of historical ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |