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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... poet: a man “in his shirt-sleeves, with one hand in a pocket of his pantaloons,” a daringly unbuttoned collar, and ... poetic about them except that each line began with a capital letter. They did not rhyme; they had no meter; the lines ...
... Poet, “A Woman's View of Walt Whitman,” and after his death, The Fight of a Book for the World. His work for the most part no longer needs justification, which is perhaps a pity; it was written to need justification. If the difficulty ...
... Poet,” Whitman—then a twenty-two-year-old journalist—was in the audience. Poets, Emerson told the crowd that day, had not yet faced the emergent conditions of American life. They were too busy being poetic. “It is not metres, but a ...
... poetic vision committed him to a view from below, to sympathies with outcasts, he was capable of surprising turns, like the eroticization of the black slave in “I Sing the Body Electric,” or like an extraordinary notebook entry about ...
... poet who had always prided himself on health and robust physicality, illness would be a psychic challenge for the rest of his life. His admirers had already begun to legitimize him as “the Good Gray Poet”—a label affixed to him by ...
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1891 | |
PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |