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"Passage to India": Whitman and Lucretius

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Identifies an image in "Passage to India" indebted to Lucretius and describes the more general Lucretian influence on the poem, finding Whitman's attitudes toward Lucretius mixed.

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Jacobson, H., (2000) “"Passage to India": Whitman and Lucretius”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 17(3), 121-123. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1580

Rights: Copyright © 2000 Howard Jacobson

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2000-01-01

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