. The complete writings of Walt Whitman. ^ Woa&e u to CJ. of fo or incii^ done 0 be exceird- ation of objects, \ lands and days do .. have, anything bettei in verbal >f poetry, nd ahead ^rinscend ;1 I have iue, as the cism, and all i soul, involve hut the quality, r point of view* jiemes and things, Wa/^ Whitmmi: J^^^S^ by the From an etching by H. D. Youhg frv^li fM^^^ptfy^SQ ^Tof&He, not only the * of the past, but the d—to illustrate all ie of to-day; and that re the chief demands ^native literature. Not /le, some choice plot or fine thoughts, ! which has been ibly never to letic present
. The complete writings of Walt Whitman. ^ Woa&e u to CJ. of fo or incii^ done 0 be exceird- ation of objects, \ lands and days do .. have, anything bettei in verbal >f poetry, nd ahead ^rinscend ;1 I have iue, as the cism, and all i soul, involve hut the quality, r point of view* jiemes and things, Wa/^ Whitmmi: J^^^S^ by the From an etching by H. D. Youhg frv^li fM^^^ptfy^SQ ^Tof&He, not only the * of the past, but the d—to illustrate all ie of to-day; and that re the chief demands ^native literature. Not /le, some choice plot or fine thoughts, ! which has been ibly never to letic present- ;hts, &c., our ..rly will never Jy possess from ^According to Immanuel Kilpuficancc to all the rest. , giving shape and is*i. a Bachwarb (Blance oer C^raverb IRoaba the bequests of the past, it still remains to be saidthat there is even towards all those a subjectiveand contemporary point of view appropriate to our-selves alone, and to our new genius and environ-ments, differing from anything hitherto; and thatsuch conception of current or gone-by life and art isfor us the only means of their assimilation consistentwith the Western world. Indeed, and anyhow, to put it specifically, hasnot the time arrived when, (if it must be plainly said,for democratic Americas sake, if for no other) theremust imperatively come a readjustment of the wholetheory and nature of Poetry? The question is im-portant, and I may turn the argument over and re-peat it: Does not the best thought of our day andRepublic conceive of a birth and spirit of song supe-rior to anything past or present? To the effectualand moral consolidation of our lands (already, asmaterially establishd, the greatest factors in knownhistory, and far, far grea
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