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Walt Whitman at 200: Essays and Poems

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Walt Whitman 200th birthday: essays and poems

May 31, 2019 marks the 200th birthday of poetic great Walt Whitman.

To commemorate the occasion, EM presents four essays and a selection of poems.

  • Frenchness Versus Frenchiness: Laforgue’s Translations and the “Wordly” Estate of Whitman by Carla Sofia Ferreira
  • Visionary Markings: Em Dashes and Ellipses in Walt Whitman’s “Talbot Wilson” Notebook by Tom Holmes
  • “Only the Lull I Like”: Walt Whitman’s Image of Silence by Andrew Field
  • Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg: A Story of Influences by Alexandre Ferrere
  • Free Speech Cantos by Michael Ceraolo
  • Four poems by Walt Whitman

Happy Birthday, Walt!

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Author: Empty Mirror Category: On Literature, Walt Whitman May 30, 2019

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