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...foreign masters of despair -- Mishima, say, or Celine -- Miller could not help remaining a fearlessly joyous soul, "100% American," as he put it, right down to his repudiation of America. No one ever embraced life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness more lustily. An Emersonic boom was his, and Whitmanic energy. Like Emerson, he saw the Greek roots in enthusiasm -- the word means divine possession -- and knew that the poet "speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly . . . Not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar." And like Whitman, his fellow rhapsodist of Brooklyn, he sang only...
...prose that seems so stabilizing in the late 20th. Ralph Waldo Emerson is good to have beside the bed between 3 and 6 in the morning. So is the book of Job. Poetry: Wallace Stevens for his strange visual clarities, Robert Frost for his sly moral clarities, Walt Whitman for his spaciousness and energy. Some early Hemingway. I read the memoirs of Nadezhda Mandelstam (Hope Against Hope; Hope Abandoned), the widow of Osip Mandelstam, a Soviet poet destroyed by Stalin. I look at The Wind in the Willows out of admiration for Mr. Toad and for what...
...Voice of a Woman Pharaoh: New Poems a reading by Ruth Whitman at 7:30 p.m. in the Bunting Institute...
Daniel Eaton, 7, of Whitman, attended the rally with his parents, wearing combat gear and a helmet. Eaton was reticent about expressing his views regarding U.S. foreign policy, but when asked whether he believed he should support our troops, he replied...
...Walt Whitman...