The Writings of John Burroughs: Whitman: a studyHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1896 |
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... personality , and runs very little to intel- lectual subtleties and refinements . It fulfills itself in our wills and character , rather than in our taste . Whit- - IX Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his ...
... personality , and runs very little to intel- lectual subtleties and refinements . It fulfills itself in our wills and character , rather than in our taste . Whit- - IX Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his ...
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... personality , and the power and wisdom of his utterance . If he cannot do this we shall soon tire of him . That Whitman was a personality the like of which the world has not often seen , and that his message to his country and to his ...
... personality , and the power and wisdom of his utterance . If he cannot do this we shall soon tire of him . That Whitman was a personality the like of which the world has not often seen , and that his message to his country and to his ...
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... personality , and turned upon life with love and triumph . XIV The world always has trouble with its primary men , or with the men who have any primary gifts , like Emerson , Wordsworth , Browning , Tolstoi , Ib- sen . The idols of an ...
... personality , and turned upon life with love and triumph . XIV The world always has trouble with its primary men , or with the men who have any primary gifts , like Emerson , Wordsworth , Browning , Tolstoi , Ib- sen . The idols of an ...
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... personality , " or of " the mod- ern , " because such terms only half define him . He quickly escapes into that large and universal air which all great art breathes . We cannot sum him up in a phrase . He flows out on all sides , and ...
... personality , " or of " the mod- ern , " because such terms only half define him . He quickly escapes into that large and universal air which all great art breathes . We cannot sum him up in a phrase . He flows out on all sides , and ...
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... personality . I think it highly probable that future scholars and critics will find his work fully as significant and era - marking as that of any of the few supreme names of the past . It is the culmination of an age of individ- ualism ...
... personality . I think it highly probable that future scholars and critics will find his work fully as significant and era - marking as that of any of the few supreme names of the past . It is the culmination of an age of individ- ualism ...
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æsthetic aims American artistic beautiful beauty disease beget body breath bring called candor character charity cism common conventional cosmic cracy critic culture death democracy democratic divine earth egoism egotism elements Emerson emotion equal evil eyes face faith feel flowers formal art give Goethe Gosse hand heroic heroic nudity human ideal ideas impression John Addington Symonds Leaves of Grass less literary literature lives look man's manly matter meaning ment mind modern mother nature never open air passion personality pietism poems poet poet's poetic poetry pride prophetic qualities race reader real things reality refinement religion religious savage says seems sense Shakespeare social social equality soldiers soul speaks spirit stand suggestion sweet taste Tennyson thought tion traits triumph ture uncon universal utterance verse vital voice Walt Whitman Whit whole words wounded writing
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Página 47 - For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
Página 105 - Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems. You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books...
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Página 47 - I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach strong deliveress, When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead, Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death. From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
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Página 60 - Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern, and includes and is the soul; Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it ! 14 Whoever you are, to you endless announcements ! Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
Página 138 - The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers ; the composition of...