| 1855 - 560 páginas
...first proceeds to put his own body and soul into the new versification: "I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you." He leaves houses and their shuttered rooms, for the open air. He drops disguise and ceremony, and walks... | |
| 1856 - 602 páginas
...figures on his frontispiece, and unmistakeably utters his own poem : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume, you shall assume ; For every atom belonging...at my ease — Observing a spear of Summer grass." Such is the starting point of this most eccentric and republican of poets ; of whom the republican... | |
| 1881 - 1008 páginas
...brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging...ease • • • observing a spear of summer grass," he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration, extended in later years... | |
| 1919 - 714 páginas
...sees with himself innumerable counterpart identities, " I celebrate myself and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to yon ;" and (3) in all personality the egotism which is a part of God, the transcendental ego, where... | |
| Richard Maurice Bucke - 1883 - 270 páginas
...nominally upon himself, but really includes everybody. It begins : ' I celebrate myself. And what I assume, you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.1 In a word, Walt Whitman represents the kosmical man — he is the ADAMUS of\ the Nineteenth century... | |
| 1888 - 344 páginas
...parodists, here is a small extract from his SONG OF MYSELF. I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging...of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 páginas
...But the broad development is obvious. "Walt Whitman " begins thus :— I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul; I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 páginas
...the broad development is obvious. "Walt Whitman " begins thus : — I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul ; I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 páginas
...brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines: — "I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging...my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass," he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration, extended in later years... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 542 páginas
...that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines : — "I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume ; For every atom belonging...my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass," he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration, extended in later years... | |
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