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Democratic Vistas and Other Papers

Democratic Vistas and Other Papers

Whitman, Walt

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Letters & EssaysGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1410100669
ISBN13: 9781410100665
Publisher: Intl Law & Taxation Publ
Published: Nov 30 2002
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.66 Depth: 7.52
Language: English
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with Democratic Vistas, now considered a classic discussion of the theory of democracy and its possibilities. In this essay he protests the unrestrained materialism, greed, corruption and spiritual failure of what, two years later, Mark Twain would label The Gilded Age. Whitman criticizes America for its mighty, many-threaded wealth and industry that mask an underlying dry and flat Sahara of soul. He calls for a new kind of literature to revive the American population: Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does. Whitman was one of the few writers to keep the Emersonian faith in individual and cultural regeneration after the Civil War.

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