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Leaves of Grass in Claude Debussy's Prose

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• • Brooks Toliver None Email Brooks Toliver. (compose email, opens in email app.)

Abstract

Tracks Whitman's previously unacknowledged influence on composer Claude Debussy and proposes that "Debussy could not have avoided knowledge of Whitman had he tried, and his well-known nature aesthetic owes some--though by no means all--of its inspiration to that poet."

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How to Cite: Toliver, B. (1993) “Leaves of Grass in Claude Debussy's Prose”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 11(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1398