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1 day ago · Walter Whitman Jr. ( / ˈhwɪtmən /; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. [1]
4 days ago · The authors who began to come to prominence in the 1830s and were active until about the end of the Civil War—the humorists, the classic New Englanders, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and others—did their work in a new spirit, and their achievements were of a new sort.
4 days ago · I have no chair, no church, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.
4 days ago · For Career Professionals. (Image Source: EComposer’s Template) "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot (Novelist) (Assures that you can always learn, grow, and pursue new paths in your career) "The best way to get a good job is to create your own."
4 days ago · Answers:A reference to Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" => "I, Too". Langston Hughes' poem adds the African American identity to Whitman's list of ordinary people who constitute and contribute to American collective identity. Paradox of social injustice => "I, Too".
1 day ago · Allen Ginsberg. Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( / ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ /; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic ...
4 days ago · If I couldn’t be the best, why play at all? I realize that not everyone suffers from this crippling all-or-nothing mentality. After all, hundreds of thousands of students play in school orchestras each year without harboring dreams of debuting as soloists for the Philharmonic.
