Walt Whitman, passant moderne

This article considers the major part played by the city in Leaves of Grass. Starting from an analysis of Whitman’s departure from the Romantic poets’ approach to the urban environment it charts the poems’ progress through various cities and examines the poet’s susceptibility to the language of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eric Athenot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2009-12-01
Series:Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/1519