Author

Publication

1997-05-28 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

53,750 words, Guess

Page Count

215 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100521585724
  • ISBN-139780521585729
  • OCLC Control Number38003581
  • Better World Books9780521585729
  • Open LibraryOL7747253M

First Sentence

For Whitman, it was all a question of turning cultural actions, as quickly as possible, into language: he set out to absorb the "agitated and turbulent" conditions of his cultural present and to go about the work of "wording the future with undissuadable words," rejecting nothing in the culture and trying instead to "force discrepancies into range," to bring the "boiling-hot days" to voice, and to do it all "on native principles."

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