Walt Whitman: Man, Poet, Philosopher: Three LecturesReference Department, Library of Congress, 1955 - 53 pages |
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accepted admired American artist aspect of Whitman's beautiful better biographers Calamus called character Clarke Whittall Poetry Compost continent course crete criticism dance death Democratic Vistas Emerson emotions everything evil fact George Sand gestures Homer human ideal identity imagination individual insisted knew language Lawrence least Leaves of Grass lines literary literature living look Lucretius marriage master masterpieces meaning merely mind nation nature never observation once paradox Passage to India perhaps personality philosophical poet phrenologists Plotinus poet's poetic statement poetic vision Political democracy preface prose reader relation religion seen sense Shakespeare simple simulacrum Sleepers Song soul Specimen Days stand symbolic sympathetic talking Tennyson thee theory things thought tion Transcendentalists true poem truth universe verse Walt Whitman Whit Whitman's poems Whitman's view Whitman's vision women words Wordsworth write wrote