Literary History of the United States, Volume 1Robert Ernest Spiller, Willard Thorp, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Henry Seidel Canby |
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Page 477
... Leaves of Grass ? Whitman himself defined it many times , not always in the same terms : An attempt ... of a naive , masculine , affectionate , contemplative , sensual , imperious person to cast into literature not only his own grit and ...
... Leaves of Grass ? Whitman himself defined it many times , not always in the same terms : An attempt ... of a naive , masculine , affectionate , contemplative , sensual , imperious person to cast into literature not only his own grit and ...
Page 486
... Leaves of Grass . It is not at any time , even in its ninth edition , a complete , articulated book . It is a becoming , in which the imaginative concept of the whole is to be found in the beginning , a whole which expands and gains ...
... Leaves of Grass . It is not at any time , even in its ninth edition , a complete , articulated book . It is a becoming , in which the imaginative concept of the whole is to be found in the beginning , a whole which expands and gains ...
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... Leaves of Grass as an innovating ex- periment in form . Closer to Whitman's own emphasis was Bazalgette's in- fluential biography of 1908 , followed in 1909 by his translation ( of which Gide was critical ) , and in 1921 by his analytic ...
... Leaves of Grass as an innovating ex- periment in form . Closer to Whitman's own emphasis was Bazalgette's in- fluential biography of 1908 , followed in 1909 by his translation ( of which Gide was critical ) , and in 1921 by his analytic ...
Contents
The European Background | 3 |
Colonial Literary Culture | 16 |
REPORTS AND CHRONICLES | 24 |
Copyright | |
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