413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
The History of Literature
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The Poems of William Whitman, Part Two
Part two of our look at walt whitman. The nation was full of wilderness and civilization, both extremes everywhere you looked. And it just would not do to have poets who lived in strait jackets, counting out syllables. This is what people were hearing. We turn to alfred lord tennyson, the poetic star of victorian england, and henry wadsworth longfellow, his counterpart in America.
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