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On Time and Form in Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

Author: Paul A Orlov

  • On Time and Form in Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

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    On Time and Form in Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

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Abstract

Offers a reading of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" that emphasizes that, "although critics have sometimes claimed that Whitman's verse generally suffers from a looseness of form, it is precisely through a strategic and careful poetic form that he achieves in this poem a crossing that involves poet and reader alike in a timeless voyage of being."

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Orlov, P. A., (1984) “On Time and Form in Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2(1), 12-21. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1057

Rights: Copyright © 1984 Paul A Orlov

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01 Jul 1984
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