Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition by Gary Schmidgall

Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition

Gary Schmidgall

400 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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Walt Whitman burst onto the literary stage raring for a fight with his transatlantic forebears. With the unmetered and unrhymed long lines of Leaves of Grass, he blithely forsook "the old models" declaring that "poems distilled from other poems wi...

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