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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... look archaic. In that way, if in no other, we have all fallen under Whitman's influence. The 1855 preface agitates for this revolution in taste, in its somewhat cryptic way. Whitman calls on poetry to be essentially modern, implying ...
... look like earlier poetry, but it is a device in its own right. In earlier English verse, and most later free verse for that matter, the arbitrary line break sustains a constant tension against the impression of a speaking voice. Rhyme ...
... look in vain for the poet I describe,” Emerson had said in that lecture. Thirteen years later, when he received the unsolicited book from a stranger, Emerson evidently decided he had found what he was looking for. He wrote back what has ...
... look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman. This rhetoric of insurgency, conspicuous in the first version of Leaves of Grass, and heightened further in the second edition of 1856, was to be toned down in later ...
... look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. 3 I have heard what the talkers were ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |