The Portable Walt WhitmanPenguin, 30 դեկ, 2003 թ. - 608 էջ A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories |
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... writing, both poetry and prose. Many who knew him tell us how widely he was known and liked on the streets; he would glad-hand street-car conductors, porters, laborers of all kinds. He took Emerson to meet his friends at the firehouse ...
... writes: “But it is not on 'Leaves of Grass' distinctively as literature, or a specimen thereof, that I feel to dwell, or advance claims. No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at ...
... writes in section 48 of “Song of Myself.” “And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God.” Unlike Milton or Wordsworth, he does not undertake to justify God's ways to man; nothing needs justification, evil included. Far from ...
... writing? Part of what makes Whitman such an oddly compelling saint, too, is just what a profane and perverted holy man he is. He loved smelly men, and liked to go home with them. (His notebooks contain long lists of men and boys he met ...
... writing from first-or second-hand knowledge of Whitman, since they had moved in the same circles for at least thirteen years, and Whitman had once worked for a paper owned by Griswold. (Ironically, Whitman, who knew no Latin, included ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |