Word: yawp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone at the time embraced him or his work with the same adulation as the well-established Emerson. In fact, many dismissed Leaves of Grass as an immoral book. Whitman himself never seemed entirely satisfied with the controversial collection, which he said allowed him to sound his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world...