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WALT WHITMAN - THE POET ENVISAGED BY EMERSON
WALT WHITMAN - THE POET ENVISAGED BY EMERSON

Author(s): Lucian Radu
Subject(s): Poetry, Philology, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: cosmic vision; self; senses; common language; country spirit;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is meant to demonstrate Walt Whitman` s poetic filiation, being the first illustrious American poet envisaged by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essays, whose poetics is conceived in Emersonian terms and whose poetic achievement was developed in the direction of chief line indicated by Emerson.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 967-971
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English