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AMERICAN INNOCENCE ; New York Was Walt Whitman's Jerusalem " the Poet Was Ravished by Its Buildings, Its Boats and, Occasionally, Its Citizens. Now 21st- Century Gotham City Is Re-Igniting Its Love Affair with the 19th- Century Visionary, Says Philip Hoare " and Not a Moment Too Soon
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The Independent on Sunday (London, England),
August 14, 2005
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Whitman, Walt (1819-92)
Cunningham, Michael
Wilde, Oscar
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......expression of his message: 'Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the...daily drama of human contact. Whitman saw sexuality as part of the...beasts spoke', while Emily Dickinson announced, 'I never read...this year the sensational Mr Whitman is about to become current......
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......she received any payments. Whitman, who attended church with...Colored People has demanded that Whitman not take office until a full...ask U.S. District Judge Dickinson Debevoise on Monday for permission...congregation that "Christie Todd Whitman deserves the support of every......
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......celebrate the poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes. Advisers...this has to do with honoring Whitman, Dickinson and Hughes. Mr. Hamill and...celebrating the work of Walt Whitman ... is absurd." Crusty......
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......Erotic Poems" (2008). Its editor, David Lehman, contends that erotic poetry is in the American tradition of Whitman, Dickinson, Crane and Auden, although younger poets are less self-censored and more confessional. Among former U.S......
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......If we teach children to love poetry, we add another dimension to their lives, an introduction to Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, and all the others who have made life more meaningful. But the immediate, wonderful, amazing reason......
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......Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, Milton, Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa......
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......Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Marvell, Calderon, Goethe, Nerval, Blake, Coleridge, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Rilke, Yeats, Lorca, Mandelstam, Eliot, and Auden are among the many more familiar names to......
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......Hall, that means writing "poems better than Dante, Homer, and Virgil, not to mention folks closer to home like Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, and Kinnell." As I think about that idea now, I wonder why perfect writing is important to......
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......The point is that we've almost never had one. Whitman and Dickinson the two figures that almost everyone would know from...century. But they weren't well known at the time. Dickinson, of course, wasn't known at all until after her......
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......fiction. The poems and poets he selects include Tennyson's "Ulysses", Browning's "Childe Roland", Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Emily Bronte in particularly bolshy mood. The shared vision implied is powerful, but limiting: there is......