Critical Approaches to American Literature: Walt Whitman to William FaulknerCrowell, 1965 - American literature |
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... poet to take in and reproject whatever there is , shrinking from none of it . But in Whit- man , artistic innocence ... poet composes a world for us , and what James called the “ figure in the carpet " is the poet's private chart of that ...
... poet to take in and reproject whatever there is , shrinking from none of it . But in Whit- man , artistic innocence ... poet composes a world for us , and what James called the “ figure in the carpet " is the poet's private chart of that ...
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... poet proceeds to examine that back- ground in terms of immediate experience . But the background is neces- sary ; otherwise all the arts ( not only poetry ) would have to rise in a vacuum . Poetry does not dispense with tradition ; it ...
... poet proceeds to examine that back- ground in terms of immediate experience . But the background is neces- sary ; otherwise all the arts ( not only poetry ) would have to rise in a vacuum . Poetry does not dispense with tradition ; it ...
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... poet but all members of society . For , from these , the poet differs only in his gift for exhibiting the structure , the internal lineaments , of his culture by threatening to tear them apart : a process that concentrates the symbolic ...
... poet but all members of society . For , from these , the poet differs only in his gift for exhibiting the structure , the internal lineaments , of his culture by threatening to tear them apart : a process that concentrates the symbolic ...
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Whitman I | 14 |
Richard P Adams Whitmans Lilacs and the Tradition | 28 |
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Adam American girl American Literature artist Barnes becomes beginning bird Brett character Clemens Cohn conscience consciousness Cowperwood Crane critics culture Daisy dead death dramatic Dreiser emotion Ernest Hemingway evil experience Ezra Pound fact Faulkner feel Fiction finally Fitzgerald freedom Gatsby Hadleyburg Hemingway Hemingway's Henry James hero Huck and Jim Huck's Huckleberry Finn human ideas imagination innocence Isabel James's kind Leaves of Grass Lilacs lines literary living man's Marcher Mark Twain Mauberley McCaslin meaning mind Modern moral narrator nature Negro Nick Nick Adams novel passage poem poet poetry point of view raft reader Reprinted Robert Frost romantic says Scott Fitzgerald seems sense social society song spirit Stephen Crane story symbol T. S. Eliot tells theme things thought tion Tom's tradition tragic unity Wallace Stevens Walt Whitman Waste Land Whitman wilderness William Faulkner words writing York