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Whitman spoke from an intimate knowledge of [the common people], for his real occupation for years was to mingle with crowds, especially of the young, developing his gifts of empathy and observation. Almost every day he crossed the East River on the Fulton ferry, where he made himself at home in the pilot-house, sometimes staying there half the day ....
— Sep 27, 2024 08:51PM
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So, while in a way [Sidney Lanier] invented a style, it was therefore not a good style, it was seldom or never natural, direct or simple, and it abounded in errors of taste and verbal effects that were constantly forced and suggested a kind of archaism that was false and hollow.
— Sep 29, 2024 08:54PM
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The impulse to write in verse had come to [Melville], oddly enough, at the moment when the prose-impulse had quite run out, a reversal of the usual order, and he stubbornly continued to compose and print, privately at times, at his own expense, the rhymes that a handful of readers at best were aware of.
— Sep 28, 2024 08:03PM
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[Southern writers] were driven to complain of their isolation, the uncongeniality of the atmosphere, the limited audience at best which the South afforded, conditions that obliged them to publish their work in the North or abroad if they wished it to receive the least attention.
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