CR. The Centennial Review, Volume 26Michigan State University, College of Arts & Letters, 1982 - Literature |
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Page 199
... LEAVES OF GRASS WAS FIRST PUBLISHED in 1855 with no fanfare , few sales , and hardly any recognition . One contemporary jour- nalist , astonished and bewildered by the book's unprecedented novelty , concluded his review by dryly ...
... LEAVES OF GRASS WAS FIRST PUBLISHED in 1855 with no fanfare , few sales , and hardly any recognition . One contemporary jour- nalist , astonished and bewildered by the book's unprecedented novelty , concluded his review by dryly ...
Page 200
... leaves , body - leaves , growing up above me above death , " beseeching them to " tell in your own way the heart that is under you . But his appeals are fruitless his " taller , sweet leaves " remain obstinately silent — and the poet ...
... leaves , body - leaves , growing up above me above death , " beseeching them to " tell in your own way the heart that is under you . But his appeals are fruitless his " taller , sweet leaves " remain obstinately silent — and the poet ...
Page 210
... leaves stay with- in a vocabulary of metaphoric indirection . By extending a chain of linked analogies ( bud , seed , sprout , landscape ) they seek to merge with and substantiate that larger corpus , the text of Leaves of Grass ...
... leaves stay with- in a vocabulary of metaphoric indirection . By extending a chain of linked analogies ( bud , seed , sprout , landscape ) they seek to merge with and substantiate that larger corpus , the text of Leaves of Grass ...
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