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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... form so common that it could even be called the dominant kind of verse. For most readers, rhyme and meter have come to look archaic. In that way, if in no other, we have all fallen under Whitman's influence. The 1855 preface agitates ...
... forms of experience. These tensions have not lost their power to move and unsettle readers. Whitman has had many imitators, and has influenced almost every poet after him, but in these qualities he has never been equaled. To read even ...
... form—is sensational and appealingly crude. Its style gives little hint of the poetry to come, except in its surges of homoeroticism and richly disorganized consciousness. In his political journalism, Whitman followed a principle that ...
... forms of inferiority: of class, of ignorance, of sex, of poverty, of disrepute and disability, of national provincialism. Through me forbidden voices, Voices of sexes and lusts, voices veil'd and I remove the veil, Voices indecent by me ...
... form as well as theme are striking. Where the poems of the 1855 version are loud and expansive, seemingly wanting to go on forever, the “Calamus” poems are short, sometimes a mere three lines. Many of them end with an image of wordless ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |