Word: walts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement; but when we glance at the list of former editors and contributors of the "Evening Post" we can see why it has always enjoyed the position and prestige which it possesses today. William Cullen Bryant, J. F. Cooper, S. P. Chase, SainteBeuve, Carl Schurs, Henry and William James, Walt Whitman, C. F. Adams Jr., Charles Eliot Norton, Goldwin Smith, and William Roscoe Thayer are only a few of the many well-known men who were associated with the paper during the nineteenth century...
...Walt Whitman, once said, "When it cannot be helped, defeat is great," Implying thereby also the converse. As the parse goes, he "had the proper spirit". Defeat when final, crushing, irreparable, may be something to moan about, but when there's still a good chance to show the fight left...
...rather I believe I am acquainted with her terrible grammar. As a matter of fact, personally, I am very much against vers libnre and all that sort of thing. Of course I admit Walt Whitman was a very great man; but I insist that metre is not an unnatural thing, but an extremely natural thing, like the sing-song of a child, you know, kicking his heels against a wall...
...usually shy, for an individual is repressed, but the type advanced. You have a very good school of young poets here in America. Vachel Lindsay in his poem 'General William Booth enters into Heaven,' shows the ability of this group. Mr. Lindsay ventures to go one step further than Walt Whitman, joining melody to realism...