SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

Walt Whitman consciously set out to forge a personal path for himself as a poet Inspired by contemporaries like Emerson who expressed a need for a new uniquely American style of poetry Whitman eschewed conventions he saw as outdated or undemocratic Setting aside traditional rhyme meter and even brevity Whitman favored a style that was declarative direct and maximalist For subject matter he focused on the common individual as democratic representa...Seguir leyendo