Works of Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman Today, Essay Questions and Bibliography

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Whitman, Walt

Whitman, Walt
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Walt Whitman Today, Essay Questions and Bibliography

Walt Whitman Today

The position of Walt Whitman in American literature has been established.
Both time and changing social and literary attitudes have brought Whitman to
a place from which he cannot be shaken. His shadow may grow momentarily longer
or shorter in the sifting process that is critical debate, but his essential
stature will not be reduced. What shocked the average reader in 1855 no longer
outrages, although Whitman's poetry still manages to offend good taste at
times. What confounded the ...

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