Foregrounds and Apprenticeships: Dickinson & Whitman
Includes literary timeline and biographies of both poets while introducing the literary environment in which Whitman and Dickinson learned to write. Includes careful study of the mentor relationships between Whitman and Emerson as well as Dickinson and Higginson.
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Walt Whitman and Slavery
Invites users to consider Whitman's treatment of race and slavery in Song of Myself with particular focus on two fugitive slave passages.
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