Essays
Author: Simon Parker
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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How to Cite: 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). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1621