411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope
The History of Literature
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Leaves of Grain Is the Flower of Her Temperament Active in Me
She was not well educated, neither was walt. But clearly she was intelligent. When you read her letters, you hear the rhythms of her speech and even her thought. And what better training for our young poet in training? What better confidence builder for a poet who is about to break free from standard metre and verse?"
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