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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... characters. (Fowler and Wells told Whitman that he had a very large bump indicating “adhesiveness,” or bonding with members of the same sex.) Advertisements also directed buyers to Whitman's home on Ryerson Street in Brooklyn, where he ...
... character after Poe's death—essentially named Whitman as a sodomite in his review of the 1855 Leaves. But he did it in Latin, refusing to speak such a vile possibility even while speaking it: In our allusions to this book, we have found ...
... character, but its personal reflections have made it one of the most enduringly popular treatments of the war. Its first half, devoted to the war years, is moving and agreeably rambling. Readers have often felt a loss of momentum in the ...
... character of anti-democratic tendencies. His distinctive generosity sometimes wavers in the face of Carlyle's antipopulism, and sometimes asserts itself all too naively. Yet Democratic Vistas remains an eloquent (if sometimes bombastic) ...
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Contents
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |