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[ses at unc.edu (Simon Spero)]

Paul Jones wrote:

>Someone invited poet/translator/activist Sam Hamill to her house to talk
>about two of America's most overtly political poets and one of our most
>deceptively simple but most subversive poets (Whitman, Hughes and
>Dickinson) a short while back. 
>
I assume you're not referring to Walt Whitman, for whom:

    The War was the shining incarnation for Whitman of American
    democracy: an exemplum on an unprecedented scale of what he called
    in his 1872 Preface "Comradeship, the beautiful and sane affection
    of man for man, latent in all the young fellows, North and South,
    East and West--it is by this, I say, and by what goes directly and
    indirectly along with it, that the United States of the future, (I
    cannot too often repeat,) are to be most effectually welded
    together, intercalated, anneal'd into a Living Union."

[ http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/faculty/ezrag/intro2.htm ]
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>From pjones at metalab.unc.edu  Fri Feb 21 15:43:34 2003
From: pjones at metalab.unc.edu (Paul Jones)
Date: Fri Feb 21 15:42:20 2003
Subject: [internetworkers] NC Poets Against the War - tonight
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some might say that whitman was full of patriotic fervor but if they 
stopped at that they would have missed what he said in his later and his 
earlier work and even in his eulogies to lincoln. i'd say that your 'found 
of the web' scholar gets only maybe 20% of whitman and in so doing gets 0% 
of the complex man and poet.

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