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Walt Whitman’s Cardboard Butterfly
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“Blind, loving, wrestling touch! sheath’d, hooded, sharp-tooth’d touch!”—...
Blind, loving, wrestling touch! sheath’d, hooded, sharp-tooth’d touch! Did it make you ache so, leaving me? Parting, track’d by arriving—perpetual payment of perpetual loan; Rich, showering rain, and...
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Anthems in New Tongues I Hear Saluting Me (Whitman/Dali)
Salvador Dalí, The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus “Prayer of Columbus” by Walt Whitman A batter’d, wreck’d old man, Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home, Pent by the sea and...
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Ticket of Admission to a Lecture by Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln
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Portrait of Walt Whitman — Thomas Eakins
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Walt Whitman: American Experience (Full Documentary)
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“Literary Indecencies”— H.L. Mencken
The low, graceless humor of names! On my shelf of poetry, arranged by the alphabet, Coleridge and J. Gordon Cooglar are next-door neighbors! Mrs. Hemans is beside Laurence Hope! Walt Whitman rubs...
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“Birds and Birds and Birds”— Walt Whitman
A little later—bright weather.—An unusual melodiousness, these days, (last of April and first of May) from the blackbirds; indeed all sorts of birds, darting, whistling, hopping or perch’d on trees....
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“Edgar Poe’s Significance”— Walt Whitman
“Edgar Poe’s Significance” by Walt Whitman. From Specimen Days. Jan. 1, ’80.—In diagnosing this disease called humanity—to assume for the nonce what seems a chief mood of the personality and writings...
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The Worst Poetry I Have Ever Read
At the home of some good friends this past weekend, reclined nicely in a warm armchair, the warmth of various ales coursing through me, I picked off the shelf by my right hand a crumbling first edition...
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Dickens’ Children // Whitman’s Brothers — David Markson
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“Darwinism”— Walt Whitman
“Darwinism” by Walt Whitman Running through prehistoric ages—coming down from them into the daybreak of our records, founding theology, suffusing literature, and so brought onward—(a sort of verteber...
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“Samples of My Common-Place Book”— Walt Whitman
“Samples of My Common-place Book” — Walt Whitman (from Specimen Days) I ought not to offer a record of these days, interests, recuperations, without including a certain old, well-thumb’d common-place...
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Errors on Walt Whitman // Jorge Luis Borges
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“Walt Whitman”— Willa Cather
“Walt Whitman” by Willa Cather Speaking of monuments reminds one that there is more talk about a monument to Walt Whitman, “the good, gray poet.” Just why the adjective good is always applied to...
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“I do not ask any more delight” (Walt Whitman)
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“Dirge for Two Veterans”— Walt Whitman
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“The Bible as Poetry”— Walt Whitman
“The Bible as Poetry” by Walt Whitman I suppose one cannot at this day say anything new, from a literary point of view, about those autochthonic bequests of Asia—the Hebrew Bible, the mighty Hindu...
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