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R. W. B. Lewis on Whitman

 

Lewis, Trials of the Word

 

Posted here (Word document above) are excerpts from the chapter on Whitman in in R. W. B. Lewis, Trials of the Word; Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965).

Lewis’s insights are brilliant and stimulating.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   May 2022