Identifier: completewritings06whit (find matches)
Title: The complete writings of Walt Whitman
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902. ed Harned, Thomas Biggs, b. 1851, ed Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919 ed Tiggs, Oscar Lovell, 1865-
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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democratic opin- ■; runs throughout t*«- nnem in markd con- of the poets ^.^-^i^ti A striking lines of this sequel are the Msk of love, ana, laugning sober fact to scorn,to strr , Yc are equals, equal born, if yoiiaer hill be level with the flat.J, III! the lion look no larger than the cat: -^A-m^rJr^Wy^^^^^^^^^d language, loomfysW^^kM^^^M ?n^ffi^ffi^iA own doom.Naiure heel oer head, and, yelling with the yelling c leci aDove me Drain, ana swear the brain is in the feet,bring the old dark ages back, without the faith, without the f an me State, the Church, the Throne, and roll their ruinsdown the slope. I should say that all this is a equence of the tone and convictions of the earlier standardsand points of view. Then some reflections, downto the hard-pan of this sort of thing. The course of ive politics (democracy; is so certain and resistless, not only in America but in we can well afford the warning calls, neutralizings, in imaginative litera- ment, of such deep-sounding, (144)
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ii movember 3l6ougb0 and high-soaring voices as Carlyles and Tennysons.Nay, the blindness, excesses, of the prevalent ten-dency—the dangers of the urgent trends of our times— in my opinion, need such voices almost morethan any. I should, too, call it a signal instance ofdemocratic humanitys luck that it has such enemiesto contend with — so candid, so fervid, so heroic.But why do 1 say enemies ? Upon the whole isnot Tennyson — and was not Carlyle (like an honestand stern physician) —the true friend of our age ? Let me assume to pass verdict, or perhaps mo-mentary judgment, for the United States on thispoet — a removd and distant position giving someadvantages over a nigh one. What is Tennysonsservice to his race, times, and especially to America?First, I should say — or at least not forget — hispersonal character. He is not to be mentiond asa rugged, evolutionary, aboriginal force — but (anda great lesson is in it) he has been consistent through-out with the native, h

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