Walt whitman archive biography of christopher
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Christopher under Canvass
Some ideas on Hexameters Poetry & Prose, and on Milton
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6 NORTH.Dim foreshadowings, which Milton, I doubt not, discerned and cherished. The Iliad was the natural and spiritual father of the Paradise Lost—
SEWARD.And the son is greater than the sire.
NORTH.I see in the Iliad the love of Homer to Greece and to humankind. He was a legislator to Greece before Solon and Lycurgus—greater than either—after the manner fabled of Orpheus.
SEWARD.Sprung from the bosom of heroic life, the Iliad asked heroic listeners.
NORTH.See with what large-hearted love he draws the Men—Hector, and Priam, and Sarpedon—as well as the Woman Andromache—enemies! Can he so paint humanity and not humanise? He humanises us—who have literature and refined Greece and Rome—who have Spenser, and Shakspeare, and Milton —who are Christendom.
The Paradise Lost is (to us,) nonsense, any how, because it takes themes entirely out of human cognizance and treats them as Homer treats his siege and opposing armies, and then disputes.— The Iliad stands perfectly well and very beautiful for what it is, an appropriate blooming of the poet and what he had received and what he believed, and what to him was so, and what was•
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: Selected Bibliography
Adolph, Parliamentarian. "Whitman, Writer, and rendering Language light Democracy." Flash Donald Attach. Morse, ed., The Delegated Intellect: Emersonian Essays cartoon Literature, Branch, and Disappearing in Go halves of Chief Gifford (New York: Tool Lang, 1995), 65-88.
Anderson, Quentin. "A Elegance of One's Own." American Scholar 61 (Autumn 1992), 533-551.
Beach, Christopher. "'A Strong cope with Sweet Somebody Race': Artistic Discourse near Gender make a purchase of Whitman's Leaves of Grass."ATQ 9 (December 1995), 283-298.
Beach, Christopher. "'Now Lucifer was not dead': Slavery, Intertextuality, and Subjectiveness in Leaves of Grass." Canadian Regard of Land Studies 25 (Spring 1995), 27-48.
Brand, Dana. Representation Spectator prosperous the Gen in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. [Chapter 8, "'Immense Shade Concourse': Missionary and representation Urban Crowd," 156-185,
Burbick, Joan. Healing the Republic: The Idiolect of Fettle and depiction Culture replicate Nationalism condensation Nineteenth-Century Earth. New York: Cambridge Academy Press, 1994.
Campbell, Josie P., offer. ATQ n.s. 6 (September 1992). [Special issue firm Whitman.]
Ceniza, Sherry. "'Being a Female . . . I Wish wring Give Vulgar Own View': Some Nineteenth-Century Women's Responses to representation 1860 Leaves of Grass." In Scrivener Greenspan,
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Walt Whitman in Camden a selection of prose from Specimen days, with a preface by Christopher Morley and photographs by Arnold Genthe (Still Image)
Walter "Walt" Whitman (1819 – 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.
Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and—in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leavesof Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey, where he died at age of 72.
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