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Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition
Containing Multitudes Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition
Author: Gary Schmidgall
Walt Whitman burst onto the literary stage raring for a fight with his transatlantic forebears. With the unmetered and unrhymed long lines of Leaves of Grass, he blithely forsook "the old models" declaring that "poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away." In a self-authored but unsigned review of the inaugural 1855 edition, Whit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199374410
ISBN-10: 0199374414
Publication Date: 11/25/2014
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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