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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... political reasons. After a period in New Orleans, he returned to Brooklyn and became prominent among the bohemian ... Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (New York: The Free Press, 1999), and American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin ...
... political journalism, Whitman followed a principle that late in life he passed on to his young acolyte Horace Traubel: “Be radical, be radical, be radical— be not too damned radical.”7 Though he supported the Mexican War in 1848, he ...
... politics had outpaced his sensibilities. Yet because his 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 ...
... political faith. It is especially remarkable for the role it gives to literature in forging the conditions of democratic life. In this it might be compared with Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), with which it is nearly ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |