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...Walt Whitman saw his country lying on the road between Europe and Asia. The great explorers, from Columbus on, had been turned back by the American continents; but the Good Grey Poet could see mankind spreading out over the prairies, crossing the Western mountains, reaching the shores of the Pacific and sailing over it to fulfill the dream that had always haunted Europe. He wrote...
Most Americans, facing the inexpressible, get around it by talking big or talking tough. Fearing, in his Collected Poems, does both at once. He models his big talk on the Bible, Walt Whitman, and the ballyhoo of American publicity-salesmanship, his tough talk on the argot current in New York City's tabloids, dives, streets. A responsible stylist, Fearing frequently succeeds in welding big talk and tough into the kind of indivisible unit that makes literary news. His Dirge for the "executive type" is deservedly an anthological stock-piece...
...Honest, we didn't mean it, Mr. Ernst-we Lampoon fellows don't mean anything we say," was how reviewer Whitman Hobbs '41 explained his bestowal of "least likely to succeed" honors on Leila...
...First Church (Unitarian). Harvard Square Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture, which is open to the public, is sponsored by the refugee committee of the church, of which Mrs. Walter L. Boyden of Cambridge is chairman Mrs. Sharp will be introduced by Mr. Alfred F. Whitman of Cambridge...
...moralists were licked, the novel triumphant. Then it became transfigured with Uplift-Mesmerism, Mormonism, Bloomerism, above all, Teetotalism and Abolitionism. As villain, the boozer rivaled the seducer, now plying his wenches with animal magnetism and transcendentalism, instead of sighs and potions. Among temperance novelists was Walt Whitman, who confided that he wrote the "rot" with the help of several bottles of port. Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was promptly answered by at least 14 pro-slavery novels, including Aunt Phillis's Cabin. Deep in their weeping willows and haunted groves, early U. S. novelists...