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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... once in his conversations with Traubel. His father subscribed to the journal Wright edited with Robert Dale Owen, the Free Enquirer. Whitman evidently read the journal then, as well as other works of programmatic secularism that his ...
... once worked for a paper owned by Griswold. (Ironically, Whitman, who knew no Latin, included Griswold's review in his publicity packet.) At any rate, Griswold was not alone. Even John Burroughs, another early Whitmaniac, noted that ...
... once, after glimpsing him in a crowded room, the poet-clerk went home and wrote in his notebook, “His face & manner have an expression & are inexpressibly sweet—one hand on his friend's shoulder, the other holds his hand. I love the ...
... once remarked that Leaves of Grass had been above all “a language experiment.” He told a group of admirers in Canada that his main object all along had been “to sing, and sing to the full, the ecstasy of simple physiological Being.” In ...
... once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |