Abstract
Proposes that "Whitman in his later years enacted a comic 're-pose' beholden to a western tradition of comedy and a stoic ethos of 'playing one's part' in Nature's cosmic drama," and emphasizes the poet's "increasing dependence upon Stoic detachment" that "masked a level of anxiety the poet perhaps could hardly admit to himself."
How to Cite:
Hutchinson, G. B., (1989) “"The Laughing Philosopher": Whitman's Comic Repose”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6(4), 172-188. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1223
Rights: Copyright © 1989 George B Hutchinson
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