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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... writing; and no topic or body part seemed to have been left out. Nowadays we might be inclined to call the lines “free verse,” a form so common that it could even be called the dominant kind of verse. For most readers, rhyme and meter ...
... writing is both eloquent and crass, exquisite and obscene. It provokes the reader and yet solicits an extraordinary intimacy ... write one book and then another, Whitman essentially wrote the same book over and over. Seven substantially ...
... writing anonymous reviews himself, and placing them with the help of journalist friends. To his enemies, of course, this self-promotion confirmed the uncouth-ness they saw in the writing. Luckily, one of the promotional copies was sent ...
... writing, in the style of the day, was sometimes sentimental, sometimes fiercely polemical. It ranged widely over civic affairs, human interest stories, reviews, and local sketches. Whitman also published in this early period some ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |