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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... appear “very devilish to some, and very divine to some.”5 He even went so far as to include his worst reviews in a promotional packet, a gesture almost without precedent. He wanted to agitate, and he succeeded. In later life Whitman ...
... appear verbatim in Leaves of Grass. The rhetoric of free-thought radicalism is unmistakable in Leaves of Grass (“There will soon be no more priests”), and contemporary readers who were not Whitmaniacs tended to perceive irreligion as ...
... appear to be less like the usual idea of the soul—as a higher entity with which we will one day become identical by shedding our mortal selves—than as an elusive horizon of transformation. Late in “Song of Myself,” Whitman imagines ...
... wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. 7 Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |