411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope
The History of Literature
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The 18 Five Leaves of Grass
Who was this guy? And how did he get to be who he is? This carpenter's son of all things? My goodness, our secular, literary jesus has little parallels all over the place, doesn't he? No wonder he sometimes viewed himself in those blasphemous terms. Is there in america to discover, somewhere in that voice of this man writing in the nineteenth century? And if so, what is it? We will begin our inquiry with a look at walt whitman's origins. After this. Hey folks. What do we take from it? And is he still loud and persuasive, or er engaging? Or have we moved on?
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