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(Return to the English 2326 Table of Contents) (Return to the English 2326 Syllabus) .. . This unit introduces the most exciting poetry of the American nineteenth century, the works of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Deeply moved and inspired by the transcendental philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson who "greet[ed Whitman] at the beginning of a great career," Whitman's celebratory and spiritual "Song of Myself" reflects the "free verse" form that Whitman originated. Emily Dickinson, of Amherst, Massachusetts, anticipated twentieth-century poetry in her remarkably tight, witty, and rebellious poems, most of which remained unpublished until well after her death.
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