Walt Whitman and the Citizen's Eye
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ISBN: 0807117722 / Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 1993
Guided by the frequency with which Whitman resorted to visual analogies and imagery in addressing hi...
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Guided by the frequency with which Whitman resorted to visual analogies and imagery in addressing his readers, Doughtery contributes to the recent movement in Whitman studies which seeks to deliver the poet from his reputation as "solitary singer" by looking to what Whitman called the "mystery of the eyesight" as a ground on which to base a sense of common citizenship. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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