KnowraWalt WhitmanLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Walt Whitman, each with the reason it gives.All 16Broader topic 2Related 12Compared with 2Free verseRelated: His poems became a major precedent for later English-language free verse.BrooklynRelated: His Brooklyn journalism and poetry capture the city’s nineteenth-century civic life.Ralph Waldo EmersonRelated: Emerson’s praise helped bring Whitman’s Leaves of Grass to wider attention.EnjambmentBroader topic: His free verse uses long lines and carried syntax to build expansive catalogues.The American RenaissanceRelated: Leaves of Grass recast poetic form and made the democratic self its central subject.American poetryBroader topic: His expansive lines and democratic catalogues became touchstones for later American poets.Allen GinsbergRelated: Whitman’s long lines and democratic address offered a precedent Ginsberg consciously reworked.Fernando PessoaRelated: Whitman’s poetry influenced Álvaro de Campos, who also wrote under the name Alvaro de Campos.Jim JarmuschRelated: Paterson draws on Whitman’s poetry and shares its attention to an American city and ordinary life.Leaves of GrassRelated: He wrote and repeatedly revised the book across his lifetime.Carl SandburgCompared with: Whitman’s broad, catalog-rich voice is a key predecessor to Sandburg’s democratic poetic manner.Korney ChukovskyRelated: Chukovsky translated Whitman into Russian and wrote criticism that introduced his work to Russian audiences.Theodore RoethkeRelated: Whitman’s influence informs Roethke’s bodily imagery and searching account of the self.Hart CraneRelated: Crane inherited Whitman’s ambition to make American experience the subject of a large poetic vision.Louise GlückCompared with: Whitman’s abundance contrasts with Glück’s compression and controlled emotional distance.O Captain! My Captain!Related: Whitman wrote the elegy as part of his response to Lincoln’s death.
KnowraWalt WhitmanLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Walt Whitman, each with the reason it gives.All 16Broader topic 2Related 12Compared with 2Free verseRelated: His poems became a major precedent for later English-language free verse.BrooklynRelated: His Brooklyn journalism and poetry capture the city’s nineteenth-century civic life.Ralph Waldo EmersonRelated: Emerson’s praise helped bring Whitman’s Leaves of Grass to wider attention.EnjambmentBroader topic: His free verse uses long lines and carried syntax to build expansive catalogues.The American RenaissanceRelated: Leaves of Grass recast poetic form and made the democratic self its central subject.American poetryBroader topic: His expansive lines and democratic catalogues became touchstones for later American poets.Allen GinsbergRelated: Whitman’s long lines and democratic address offered a precedent Ginsberg consciously reworked.Fernando PessoaRelated: Whitman’s poetry influenced Álvaro de Campos, who also wrote under the name Alvaro de Campos.Jim JarmuschRelated: Paterson draws on Whitman’s poetry and shares its attention to an American city and ordinary life.Leaves of GrassRelated: He wrote and repeatedly revised the book across his lifetime.Carl SandburgCompared with: Whitman’s broad, catalog-rich voice is a key predecessor to Sandburg’s democratic poetic manner.Korney ChukovskyRelated: Chukovsky translated Whitman into Russian and wrote criticism that introduced his work to Russian audiences.Theodore RoethkeRelated: Whitman’s influence informs Roethke’s bodily imagery and searching account of the self.Hart CraneRelated: Crane inherited Whitman’s ambition to make American experience the subject of a large poetic vision.Louise GlückCompared with: Whitman’s abundance contrasts with Glück’s compression and controlled emotional distance.O Captain! My Captain!Related: Whitman wrote the elegy as part of his response to Lincoln’s death.