Songs of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Dawn of Modern American Poetry
by Karen Kaerbiener
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Explores how Walt Whitman broke with European literary forms to establish a broad new voice for American poetry. His influence on his contemporaries and descendents transends the boundaries of poetry and becomes the story of young America. Discusses the influence of this 19th century American poet not only to poetry but to cultural formation of the United States.Tags
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