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Passage to More than Imagism: Whitman's Imagistic Poems

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Identifies Whitman's "imagistic poems" not as "an exculsive and distinctive subset of Leaves" but as "whole poems in which the discursive and didactic elements . . . are suppressed, and the visual element predominates"; reads these poems as important elements in his oeuvre that "invite us to limn significances (as poets do) behind even the most overtly 'simple' and 'objective' facts."

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How to Cite: Schwiebert, J. E. (1990) “Passage to More than Imagism: Whitman's Imagistic Poems”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1269