Tag Archives: re Walt Whitman What we take at first to be sheer disorder what some early reviewers regarded as simple slovenliness and lack of form is in fact something rather different. It is the representation of

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

Roger W. Smith's Walt Whitman site

This site is devoted to Walt Whitman: his works, life, and my personal associaton with his works. Besides poetry, there are posts about music inspired by Whitman. Several posts focus on Whitman's New York.

Tag Archives: re Walt Whitman What we take at first to be sheer disorder what some early reviewers regarded as simple slovenliness and lack of form is in fact something rather different. It is the representation of

R. W. B. Lewis on Whitman