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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 23 : writers of familiar verse (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1 : Whitman (search)
Chapter 1: Whitman
Walt Whitman once declared his Leaves of Grass to be the most personal of all books ever published.
This is no book; Who touches this, touches a man. Thus he fits Hazlitt's description of Montaigne as one who dared to set down as a writer what he thought as a man. This being the claim of the volume, it becomes highly important to determine the character of the author.
Evidently Whitman was not, in any conventional sense of the term, that average man whose praises he sang, else even his novel form of expression would hardly have sufficed to keep his poetry so long a time from the masses.
He was a man and a writer who could be hated as an impostor or adored as a Messiah but who was in any case a challenge to discussion.
Much light is thrown on his character, of course, by the autobiographical parts of his writings; but here it is frequently difficult to determine which incidents belong to his outward and which to his inner, or imaginative, life, so deftly do
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)