413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
The History of Literature
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New Orleans - A Different Place
New orleans had flowered courtyards and big bar rooms and saloons. There were market places where indian and black hucksters sold stuff, calling out to him. He bought his coffee from a large, creole mulatto woman. And when he came to write the leaves of grass, in which he catalogues a kind of urban democracy, we can think of new orleans as being as reflective, if not more than brooklyn and new york.
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