413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
The History of Literature
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Getting to Be a Miserable Kind of Dog
In 18 forty, he wrote a letter to a friend that said, i am sick of wearing away by inches and spending the fairest portion of my little span of life here in th nest of bears. He as added, send me something funny, for i'm getting to be a miserable kind of dog. And one guesses he was grading papers at the time. It's quite a letter coming from someone who would later celebrate the common man and democracy. But i don't see that is such a contradiction. The cataloguing, the obser ations, all that is similar to his style. If you're happy in life, you see all this around you, and you celebrate it. If
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