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Article: Walt Whitman.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Walt Whitman. David S. Reynolds. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]10.99. xi + 159 pages. ISBN 0-19-517009-1. This is the second title in the Lives and Legacies series from O.U.P. (New York). The author draws on his earlier, prize-winning study, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography to reflect on Whitman the man and poet. His aim is to describe how the poet transformed 'cultural materials into poetry'. Whitman did for poetry what Twain did for prose fiction and 'liberated it from rhyme and meter, opening it up to the flexible rhythms of feeling and voice'. He was concerned ...
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Transcript: What Words, Walt Whitman, For Election Day?
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... ... Sunday 11-02-2008 What Words, Walt Whitman, For Election Day? Host: LIANE ... host: The poet Ezra Pound called Walt Whitman America's poet. He is America ... Williams reading a passage from Walt Whitman's poem, "Starting from Paumanok ...
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