411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope
The History of Literature
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America Needed a Poet
America needed a poet. It needed its own poetry, and it needed a poet to sing it. Whitman was announcing his candidacy for the job - but this was not an interview or an audition. He had assumed the job. And he lived the rest of his life as if he was honored to be in that to be holding that job,. To be in that job, or to be living out that destiny.
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