Walt Whitman and Civil War
Walt Whitman Author(s): HENRY NEUMANN Reviewed work(s): Source: The American Scholar, Vol. 2, No. 3 (July 1933), pp. 260-268 Published by: The Phi Beta Kappa Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41203967 . Accessed: 05/02/2013 12:59
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WALT WHITMAN
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Walt Whitman
HENRY NEUMANN
headeryBrooklyn for Society Ethical Culture
curious in theveryyears of that whenmillions Americans havebeenturned tosearch one forwork, of thenaout vainly of tion's best-sellers should havebeena glorification thedemocratic TruslowAdams' dreamof prosperity everybody, for James The Epic of America. us Much thesameparadoxconfronts in the of himself utterances WaltWhitman. proclaimed of He prophet the America tobe: "I announce to andmajesties makeall yet splendors " A daywasto arrive theprevious of theearth politics insignificant. "whenthrough TheseStates of walka hundred millions superb perso sons."Morethanthese numbers herenow.Arethey superb? are Or Does Whitman voiceonlyouradolescence? nowthatdisillusion has come, howfarmayhe stillavailus? He diedin 1892. Following somehistorians to point like Turner, outthat there a
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WALT WHITMAN
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Walt Whitman
HENRY NEUMANN
headeryBrooklyn for Society Ethical Culture
curious in theveryyears of that whenmillions Americans havebeenturned tosearch one forwork, of thenaout vainly of tion's best-sellers should havebeena glorification thedemocratic TruslowAdams' dreamof prosperity everybody, for James The Epic of America. us Much thesameparadoxconfronts in the of himself utterances WaltWhitman. proclaimed of He prophet the America tobe: "I announce to andmajesties makeall yet splendors " A daywasto arrive theprevious of theearth politics insignificant. "whenthrough TheseStates of walka hundred millions superb perso sons."Morethanthese numbers herenow.Arethey superb? are Or Does Whitman voiceonlyouradolescence? nowthatdisillusion has come, howfarmayhe stillavailus? He diedin 1892. Following somehistorians to point like Turner, outthat there a