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From Major to Minor: A Reading of "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life."

Author: R. W French

  • From Major to Minor: A Reading of "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life."

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    From Major to Minor: A Reading of "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life."

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Abstract

Reads "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" as Whitman's turn from the "major" themes of poems like "Song of Myself" to a "devotion to the ordinary, the plain, the un-beautiful."

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French, R. W., (1989) “From Major to Minor: A Reading of "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life."”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 7(2), 68-78. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1241

Rights: Copyright © 1989 R. W French

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Published on
01 Oct 1989
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