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- Title
DARK PATCHES AND SOLITUDE.
- Authors
TRACHTENBERG, ALAN
- Abstract
The article discusses poet Walt Whitman. The author describes Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges's views on Whitman and discusses the idea of Whitman as the hero of the poem. Other topics discussed include Whitman's poetry collection "Leaves of Grass," the 1955 book "Walt Whitman Reconsidered" by Richard Chase, Whitman's desire to write an epic poem, and racial attitudes and democracy in Whitman's poetry.
- Subjects
WHITMAN, Walt, 1819-1892; 19TH century American poetry; BORGES, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986; POETS; LEAVES of Grass (Book : Whitman); RACE in literature; DEMOCRACY in literature; CHASE, Richard
- Publication
Yale Review, 2011, Vol 99, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0044-0124
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9736.2011.00708.x