...to buy it. Walter Whitman, an American, — one of the roughs, — no sentimentalist, — no slander above men and women, or apart from them, — no more modest than immodest, — has tried to write down here, in a sort of prose poetry, a good deal of what he has seen, felt,...

...Bibles, and all the creeds." He knows that he is "august." He does not care for anybody's opinion. He is Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent,...or apart from them, No more modest than immodest. There is nothing in the universe better than Walt Whitman. That is the burden of the " Song of Myself,"...

...first in his poem : "Walt Whitman am I, a Kosmos, of mighty Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy and sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist...or apart from them ; No more modest than immodest. " I speak the password primeval — I give the sign of democracy; By God ! I will accept nothing that...

...low-cut collar. In short, we find in this last hard look, not a poet, but a "brick" of a "human critter," with whom we will " go gallivant," — " I know I...good reported, every one of us must find something. Whitman says it will be grit, and he should know ; " clean grit and human natur," blasts of them driven...

...uncommon, the extraordinary, but without any hint of the exclusive or specially favored. He was indeed "no sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them." The spirit that animates every page of his book, and that it always effuses, is the spirit of common,...

...mournful tread, Walk the deck; my captain lies Fallen, cold and dead." and the same who wrote of himself, "Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent,...or apart from them, No more modest than immodest." Like that other printer, " Poor Richard," the world-known philosopher, whose birthday you proudly remember...

...equipt, And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire. •4 Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent,...eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no slander above men and women or apart iron: them, No more modest than immodest. Unscrew the locks from...

...fully equipt, And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire. 24 Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, j No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or aparafrom them, n No more modest than immodest....

...The ''good gray poet " indeed ! It is quite in vain he attempts to repel one. He tries to shock us : Walt. Whitman, a Kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking, and breeding. -(p. 48.) He insinuates doubts : Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you suppose yourself...

...and conspire. 24 Walt Whitman am I, a Kosmos, of mighty Manhattan the son,4 Turbulent,5 fleshy and sensual, eating, drinking and breeding ; No sentimentalist...or apart from them ; No more modest than immodest. Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs I Whoever degrades...