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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 5 : the Knickerbocker group (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 6 : the Transcendentalists (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7 : romance, poetry, and history (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 8 : Poe and Whitman (search)
Chapter 8: Poe and Whitman
Enter now two egotists, who have little in common save their egoti merican periodicals.
Poe, who was older than Whitman by ten years, was fifteen when Byron died, i e: I belong at this table.
And he does.
Walt Whitman, whom his friend O'Connor dubbed the good g less ye the Lord!
That is the real motto for Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
Like St. Francis, and lik r the type.
Let us turn next to the story of Whitman's life.
It must here be told in the briefest ality of certain poems.
But Emerson wrote to Whitman from Concord: I find it the most extraordinar tunes of free verse and of emotional prose.
Whitman's new and national declamatory expression, as or everybody except the doubter and sceptic.
Whitman does not linger over the smaller groups of h hore.
In this and in many similar rhapsodies Whitman holds obstinately to what may be termed the t at World War which he did not live to see.
Whitman, like Poe, had defects of character and defec
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 9 : Union and Liberty (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10 : a New nation (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Bibliographic note. (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)