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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Whitman, Walt"”.
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Walt Whitman, the exponent of American democracy
… checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) waltwhitmanexpon00colv.pdf: 5357784 bytes, checksum: df14266c21175a2a1a241d1088ac26d3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1915
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A literary expression of Whitman's ideas of democracy
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Walt Whitman's changing perceptions of the effects of the American Civil War and its impact on his poetry
This paper seeks to examine the way that Walt Whitman’s perceptions about the American Civil War changed in Drum-Taps, his book of poems written about the war. The book attempts to capture the emotions of the Northern public throughout the war, without discussing any easily recognizable event of …
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Walt Whitman as a Precursor of Frederick Jackson Turner
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Walt Whitman, Kosmos : A Study of the Persona of "Song of Myself"
… among the critics regarding the "I" of Whitman's poem. Four major strands of critical thought regarding the persona are evident in the literary criticism, and I have categorized these critical perspectives as follows: (1) the persona as hero, (2) the persona as dualistic self, (3) the …
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In reality meager: eluding death anxiety in Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca's poetics of the body
… Spaniard’s Poet in New York using the adjective “Whitman-esque.” Indeed, the poet’s posthumous collection lambasts the rampant materialism and putrid urbanization of New York through extensive divergent shifts in style and tone from Lorca’s earlier work that point toward the influence of Walt …
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An Approach to the Critical Evaluation of Settings of the Poetry of Walt Whitman: Lowell Liebermann's Symphony No. 2
Walt Whitman's poetry continues to inspire composers of choral music, and the growing collection of musical settings necessitates development of a standard evaluative tool. Critical evaluation of the musical settings of Whitman's work is difficult because the extensive body of verse is complex and …
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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
… New Critics and its antagonists—Harold Bloom, Walter Jackson Bate, Northrop Frye, and Roy Harvey Pearce to mention only a few—reveals that the recent alternatives to the New Criticism are really not substantially different from it at all. A destructive reading of Bate, Bloom, Cleanth Brooks, …