Showing posts with label Lewis Mumford. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

"The Final Say: Walt Whitman's Poetry" by Monty Gilmer

THE FINAL SAY: WALT WHITMAN'S POETRY
by Monty Gilmer

According to Mary Wilson Little, "There is a great deal of prose license in Walt Whitman's poetry."

As Lewis Mumford wrote, "People have hesitated to call Whitman's poems poetry; it is useless to deny that they belong to sacred literature."


Walt Whitman,
born on this day in 1819