Walt Whitman's Native Representations (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780521585729
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 19th century; Poetry & poets: 19th century; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Whitman - Walt - 1819-1892
First sentence: For Whitman, it was all a question of turning cultural actions, as quickly as possible, into language: he set out to absorb the "agitated and turbulent" conditions of his cultural present and to go about the work of "wording the future with undissuadable words," rejecting nothing in the culture and trying instead to "force discrepancies into range," to bring the "boiling-hot days" to voice, and to do it all "on native principles."