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

Whitman, Walt
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Keenan, Randall
Affiliation: Department Of English, State University Of New York

Introduction

I assume that Poetry in America needs to be entirely recreated . . .
literature which will be our own; with neither foreign spirit, nor imagery
nor form, but adapted to our case, grown out of our associations, boldly
portraying the West, strengthening and intensifying the national soul, and
finding the entire fountains of its birth and growth in our own country.

Letter from Walt Whitman to
William D. O'Connor, 1866.

Whitman's Early Years: 1819-1849.

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