Abstract
After Whitman’s first paralytic stroke in 1873 his body recovered very slowly but his fame surged, especially in England. His mother died in 1873. Among many, James E. Miller, Jr., and Roger Asselineau saw great artistic change in Whitman’s later poems. Discussion of “Prayer of Columbus,” “Gods,” “Perfections,” “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” “I Sit and Look Out,” and others; also “Specimen Days.”
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 347–48.
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James E. Miller, Jr. Leaves of Grass: America’s Lyric-Epic of Self and Democracy. New York: Twayne, 1992: 113. Somewhat earlier than Miller, Roger Asselineau had made the point that nothing Whitman did, particularly toward the end of his writing life, was accidental. He had become “a more and more conscious craftsman.” The Evolution of Walt Whitman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960: 252.
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Whitman, “Prayer of Columbus,” Library, 540–42.
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Whitman, “”Gods,” Library, 408–09.
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Whitman, “Perfections” and “Answer,” Library, 410.
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Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” Library, 409.
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Whitman, “I Sit and Look Out,” Library, 411.
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Whitman, “To Old Age,” Library, 414.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 361–71.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 377–79.
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Whitman, “December 21, 1862,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 712.
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Whitman, “December 23–31” and “January, 63,” Specimen Days, Library, 713–15.
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Whitman, “May, ’63,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 720–21.
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Whitman, “Soldiers and Talks,” “Specimen Days,” 714–15.
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Whitman, “The Million Dead, Too, Summ’d Up,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 776–78.
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Whitman, “The Real War Will Never Get in the Books,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 778–79.
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Paul Fussell. The Great War, 326.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2021). The Hardiness of Fame. In: Walt Whitman. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77665-7_15
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