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Whitman's Catalogs as Literary Gestalts: Illustrative and Meditative Functions

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Abstract

Howells's remarks echo a pervasive critical opinion; as Mattie Swayne has noted, the catalog "has not been a popular element with the poet's critics, one group of whom have been inclined to apologize for it or to dismiss it as outside the realm of art" (162).
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)45-58
Number of pages14
JournalStyle
Volume24
Issue number1
StatePublished - Apr 1990

Keywords

  • American literature
  • 1800-1899
  • Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
  • poetry
  • lists

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