The Writings of John Burroughs: Whitman: a studyHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1904 |
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... Land , because in many ways it is typical of my poet , - an amphitheatre of precipitous rock , slightly veiled with a delicate growth of verdure , inclosing a few acres of prairie- like land , once the site of an ancient lake , now a ...
... Land , because in many ways it is typical of my poet , - an amphitheatre of precipitous rock , slightly veiled with a delicate growth of verdure , inclosing a few acres of prairie- like land , once the site of an ancient lake , now a ...
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... land . Whitman does not to me suggest the wild and un- kempt as he seems to do to many ; he suggests the cosmic and the elemental , and this is one of the dominant thoughts that run through my disserta- tion . Scenes of power and ...
... land . Whitman does not to me suggest the wild and un- kempt as he seems to do to many ; he suggests the cosmic and the elemental , and this is one of the dominant thoughts that run through my disserta- tion . Scenes of power and ...
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... land . We in this country have recently , in the death of Dr. Holmes , mourned the loss of the last of the New England band of such men . We are all indebted to them for solace , and for moral and intellectual stimulus . Then , much ...
... land . We in this country have recently , in the death of Dr. Holmes , mourned the loss of the last of the New England band of such men . We are all indebted to them for solace , and for moral and intellectual stimulus . Then , much ...
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... in all his tastes and attractions , always aiming to walk abreast with the great laws and forces , and to live thoroughly in the free , nonchalant spirit of his own day and land . His strain 27 J PRELIMINARY \BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL.
... in all his tastes and attractions , always aiming to walk abreast with the great laws and forces , and to live thoroughly in the free , nonchalant spirit of his own day and land . His strain 27 J PRELIMINARY \BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL.
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John Burroughs. spirit of his own day and land . His strain was min- gled Dutch and English , with a decided Quaker tinge , which came from his mother's side , and which had a marked influence upon his work . The spirit that led him to ...
John Burroughs. spirit of his own day and land . His strain was min- gled Dutch and English , with a decided Quaker tinge , which came from his mother's side , and which had a marked influence upon his work . The spirit that led him to ...
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æsthetic aims American artistic beautiful beauty disease beget body breath bring called candor character charity common conventional CONWAY HOUSE 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 intellectual John Addington Symonds Leaves of Grass less literary literature lives look 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 refined religion religious savage says seems sense social social equality soldiers soul speaks spirit stand standards suggestion sweet Symonds taste Tennyson thought tion traits ture uncon universal utterance verse vital voice Walt Whitman Whit whole words wounded writing
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Página 271 - The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them. I am enamour'd of growing out-doors, Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods, Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses, I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
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