… Whitman as “America’s greatest poet” and Leaves of Grass as the best expression of “the real
meaning of democracy … who have excavated Whitman’s life, development as a writer, and …

… epic in American poetry, responding to the democratic call … perhaps might have been called
a Jacobin. Happily, as matters … a people to take a stand with Walt Whitman. If we answer yes: …

… limits set by Whitman: ‘If we still have democratic vistas, they … was deeply critical of Whitman’s
poetic project, which he … a Marxist: his classic The Black Jacobins and his many articles on …

… works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass,
Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and …

… In his essay “Walt Whitman and the Culture of Democracy,” … affection for democracy,
we reduce democratic politics to a … ”—culture that Kateb ascribes to Whitman’s poetry (555–56, …

… 19 technique of his fugitive persona in the way that Walt Whitman did in Leaves of Grass (“I …
This chapter traces the cultural politics of Black Byronism, expanding from the incidental but …

… of what democracy requires of the urban demos. … Walt Whitman was the first significant
American poet-theorist of urban democracy, and of love as the basis of a democratic …

… to see what happens to the self and politics when we recognize the influence of things that …
, which, for Whitman’s reckoning of the political task of poetry to promote democratic diversity (…

… of canonical authors such as Walt Whitman or Stephen Crane, … Jacobins were far- left
political revolutionaries who resorted to terrorist violence in their pursuit of egalitarian democracy. …

… Why does the Age writer so swiftly contradict himself, letting … priest of democratic manhood,
American poet Walt Whitman, … mixed with a spice of Jacobin, who inspired every Victorian …