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A Mediated Vision, a Measured Voice: Culture and Criticism in Whitman's Prose

Author: Robert L Pincus

  • A Mediated Vision, a Measured Voice: Culture and Criticism in Whitman's Prose

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    A Mediated Vision, a Measured Voice: Culture and Criticism in Whitman's Prose

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Abstract

Examines a broad range of Whitman's prose--from his early journalism through Democratic Vistas and Specimen Days--and stresses how Whitman's "voices or visions alternate in his literary and cultural criticism"; concludes that in his prose Whitman "found a form to fit his microscopically attuned eye and his castigating voice--both of which had little, if any, place in his poetry."

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Pincus, R. L., (1984) “A Mediated Vision, a Measured Voice: Culture and Criticism in Whitman's Prose”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2(1), 22-31. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1058

Rights: Copyright © 1984 Robert L Pincus

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01 Jul 1984
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