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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... never read Whitman, having been “told that he was disgraceful.” On the other side, he attracted defenders, who wrote such apologias as The Good Gray Poet, “A Woman's View of Walt Whitman,” and after his death, The Fight of a Book for ...
... never published) a vein-popping pamphlet for the 1856 election in which, among other things, he described President Franklin Pierce as a man who “eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it, and tries to force it on The States ...
... never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. 2 Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and ...
... never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the ...
... never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bed-room;) The jour printer with gray head and gauntjaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript; The malform'd limbs are tied to ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |