Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little white house near the Forest of Fontainebleau an aged, paralytic blind-man has lain for months listening to the poems of Walt Whitman. Sometimes his wife would read them to him, sometimes young Eric Fenby, a Yorkshireman like himself. But it was always Whitman the blindman asked for, preferably the later poems written when Whitman was paralyzed, dying. In Queen's Hall, London, last week, a great crowd marveled at the Songs of Farewell which blind Frederick Delius had written for double choir and orchestra. The words were Whitman's: How sweet the silent backward tracings...
...large block of the Kastle's coping is the English nation, which to the Professor's amazement seems always able to addle through. In a sketch of Henry Ford, Author Pitkin disclaims ambition to write the Ford biography-"the job would be too dull for us." Walt Whitman he calls a caution, but is forced to admit, "Not until introverts no longer read and write shall we be rid of the Steer that lived on Leaves of Grass." In spite of all, Author Pitkin remains incorrigibly optimistic. With not unheard-of scientific naivete he hopes to save mankind...
...scriptures as they come.* In his impressions of the expressions of American literati, dead, alive, half-dead or simply dazed, Author Lewisohn gives the most complete modern history of American literature yet published. A little Freudian analysis goes a long way to give the story bite. As applied to Whitman, it not only bites, it goes far to clear our literature of one of its most muffled mysteries. Author Lewisohn seldom lets his religio-poetic predilections run away with him, gives good professional literary criticism by & large. The U. S. literary scene, when he is through with it, looks just...
...Whitman," Professor Matthiessen, Harvard...
...Northerner of corresponding position," but believes in his "unspoiled and eager teachableness." An eloquent testimonial of the kind of education which Piedmont gives is provided in Professor Phillips' account of weekends in his mountain cabin where students help him bake corn pone and listen to passages from Walt Whitman...