Abstract
Reads the 1855 version of "Song of Myself" in relation to "Whitman's manipulation" of the Virgilian "epic voice," arguing that Whitman both imitates and overturns epic conventions--"destabilizes
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Hardwig, B., (2000) “Walt Whitman and the Epic Tradition: Political and Poetical Voices in "Song of Myself"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 17(4), 166-188. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1588
Rights: Copyright © 2000 Bill Hardwig
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