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Whitman's Drift
The American ninteenth century witnessed a media explosion unprecedented in human history, and Walt Whitman's poetry reveled in the potentials of his time: "See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press, " he wrote. "See, the electric telegraph, stretching across the Continent, from the Western Sea to Manhattan." Still, as the budding poet learned, books neither sell themselves nor move themselves: without an efficient set of connections to get books to readers, the democratic, media-saturated future that Whitman imagined would have remained warehoused. Whitman's works sometimes ran through the "many-cylinder'd steam printing-press" and were carried in bulk on "the strong and quick locomotiv...
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The Complete Works of W.B. Yeats
DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Yeats collection: Volume 1: The Wind Among the Reeds The Old Age of Queen Maeve Baile and Aillinn In the Seven Woods Ballads and Lyrics The Rose The Wanderings of Oisin Volume 2: The King's Threshold On Baile's Strand Deirdre The Shadowy Waters Volume 3: The Countess Cathleen The Land of Heart's Desire The Unicorn from the Stars Volume 4: The Hour-Glass Cathleen ni Houlihan The Golden Helmet The Irish Dramatic Movement Volume 5: The Celtic Twilight Stories of Red Hanrahan Volume 6: What's 'Popular Poetry'? Speaking to the Psaltery Magic The Happiest of the Poets The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry At Stratford-on-Avon William Blake a...
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Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet
Was Walt Whitman--celebrated poet of freedom and democracy--a determinist at heart? A close study of Leaves of Grass shows that Whitman consistently acknowledges the inevitability of all things. As John McDonald argues, this seeming contradiction lies at the heart of Whitman's poetry, a fact continually overlooked in the more than 100 years that critics have written about the poet and his magnum opus. This volume contains an extensive study of Walt Whitman's poetry that explores both Whitman's guiding philosophy and its uses to unlock meaning within Leaves of Grass. Beginning with a detailed explanation of determinism, the author examines Whitman's use of indirection, which the poet referred...
