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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... Sing the Body Electric,” or like an extraordinary notebook entry about “Black Lucifer” that declares “I am the God of revolt—deathless, sorrowful, vast.” From that entry he produced this passage from the 1855 version of “The Sleepers ...
... Sing the Body Electric,” as his “sexuality odes,” and fiercely defended them against critics, nervous publishers, and censorious friends such as Emerson, all of whom pressed for their removal. This new way of understanding sex is ...
... sing, and sing to the full, the ecstasy of simple physiological Being.” In “A Backward Glance,” he says the point was what we would now call autobiographical: “to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and ...
Walt Whitman Michael Warner. POEMS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS 1855 Song of Myself. 1 I celebrate myself, and sing POEMS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS.
... sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, Ilean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd ...
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