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Unrhymed Modernity: New York City, the Popular Newspaper Page, and the Forms of Whitman's Poetry

Author: Simon Parker

  • Unrhymed Modernity: New York City, the Popular Newspaper Page, and the Forms of Whitman's Poetry

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    Unrhymed Modernity: New York City, the Popular Newspaper Page, and the Forms of Whitman's Poetry

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Explores Whitman's experience with newspapers as a shaping force for his poetry and argues that newspapers offered not only a source for the content of his poems, but were also a dynamic influence on his poems' vision, forms, and vocabulary.

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Parker, S., (1999) “Unrhymed Modernity: New York City, the Popular Newspaper Page, and the Forms of Whitman's Poetry”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 16(3/4), 161-171. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1621

Rights: Copyright © 1999 Simon Parker

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01 Jan 1999
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