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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... mother, speak with a sweet and simple eloquence. Friends offered him comfortable homes on Fifth Avenue, on the Hudson, and elsewhere; but from the early days in Brooklyn to his old age in Camden, he chose to live in working-class ...
... the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and.
... Bucke quotes at length a letter by Helen Price, who knew Whitman when she was a girl and Whitman was an occasional boarder and regular visitor in the home of her mother: If I were asked what I considered Walt Whitman's leading.
... mother. He was by all accounts lazy, and took a dandy's care over his working rough costume. He promoted himself with an innocence of tact. He made grammatical mistakes, especially when trying to impress by using foreign languages he ...
... mothers' laps. And here you are the mothers' laps. This grass is very dark to be from the white.
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |