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An American Primer

by Walt Whitman, Horace Traubel (Editor), Gay W. Allen
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Synopsis

Originally published in 1904 and republished by City Lights in 1970, this exciting essay is again being placed in the hands of a new generation of writers and readers. In these notes to a lecture never given, Whitman exhorts his readers to explore the potential of an original American language, to practice a great democracy of words: "words that would be welcomed by the nation, being of the national blood--words that would give that taste of identity and locality which is so dear to literature."

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Book Details

Published
January 1, 1996
Publisher
Holy Cow! Press
Pages
44
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780930100230

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