. Backgrounds of literature. Old Well at Huntin<i-tou. AMERICA IN WHITMANS POETRY American literature is the marvelously vividpicture of a democratic society in its workadayaspects, its primal and basal instincts, emotions,occupations. In a very real, though not in anexclusive or ultimate, sense he is the poet of de-mocracy; that, as Professor Dowden and otherdiscerning critics beyond the sea saw when hiswork first came into their hands, is his funda-mental significance, his original quality. Inhis case, therefore, the background of his poetryis one of its formative elements; it furnished t
. Backgrounds of literature. Old Well at Huntin<i-tou. AMERICA IN WHITMANS POETRY American literature is the marvelously vividpicture of a democratic society in its workadayaspects, its primal and basal instincts, emotions,occupations. In a very real, though not in anexclusive or ultimate, sense he is the poet of de-mocracy; that, as Professor Dowden and otherdiscerning critics beyond the sea saw when hiswork first came into their hands, is his funda-mental significance, his original quality. Inhis case, therefore, the background of his poetryis one of its formative elements; it furnished thematerial with which he worked. That man is fortunately born the conditionsof whose early life put him and keep him in in-timate and vital relation with the kind of ex-perience, the social habits and circumstances,with which he is later to deal with original in-sight and power. Whitman was born in aplace that gave easy access to open fields, to thesea, and to great cities, and in a condition thatbrought him into contact with working and Lani
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