Walt Whitman, Poet and DemocratFolcroft Press, 1969 - 52 pages |
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... thoughts . Milton had his idea of what were the essential qualities of poetry , but his choice of an epic theme was ... thought it will be found that nothing more decisively identifies Whitman with his age and its literature than this ...
... thoughts . Milton had his idea of what were the essential qualities of poetry , but his choice of an epic theme was ... thought it will be found that nothing more decisively identifies Whitman with his age and its literature than this ...
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... thought over it in all weathers and all companies , in sunlight and moonlight , in ecstasy and in despond- ency , in ... thoughts effete and transitory . According to his own account he , the strolling compositor and journalist , found ...
... thought over it in all weathers and all companies , in sunlight and moonlight , in ecstasy and in despond- ency , in ... thoughts effete and transitory . According to his own account he , the strolling compositor and journalist , found ...
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... thought — that . Whitman had been Comte . The one thing quite clear about the poetic function is that the poet must sing a passion , his own or another's , and the deeper the passion sung - relatively to the reader's sympathy— the more ...
... thought — that . Whitman had been Comte . The one thing quite clear about the poetic function is that the poet must sing a passion , his own or another's , and the deeper the passion sung - relatively to the reader's sympathy— the more ...
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American appetite artistic barbarian beauty bird blank verse Carlyle catalogues cedars century charge against Whitman Children of Adam civilisation comic conception confess confidence cracies criticism cultured Death Carol demand demo democrat Democratic Vistas divine doctrine earth Emerson English poetry expression faith fanaticism feeling FOLCROFT future George Eliot Hugo human humour idea inspired judgment labour Leaves of Grass less Lilac literary literature looking Lord Tennyson love of comrades lyric manners marriage modern poetry moral natural never night optimism optimist Paradise Lost passage perhaps pessimism Plato poems poet poetic polite kinks pronounce prophet prose protest question race reader rhyme rhythmic savans Secession Secession war seems sentence singer of democracy song soul speech spirit of Whitman's star sung surely Tennyson Theism theme theory things thought tion to-day verse Victor Hugo Vistas Walt Whitman writer