The Walt Whitman of 21st Century English Literature essay
~Vol. The new anthology of American poetry. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. The first part of an ambitious three-volume work in progress. of this book covers the. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are considered not only the two best poets of the nineteenth century, but also the two best poets the United States has ever produced. Of course, this. Whitman's praise for the individualistic and self-sufficient culture of white people in America excludes the black slaves, whose labor enabled all these carpenters, masons, boatmen, and others to pursue their callings and earn their "American dream." This sentiment was emphasized in a poem by Langston Hughes entitled 'I, Too.' The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers consists of 4, spanning the period -1937, with most items dating from when Whitman first published. poem Leaves of Grass, until his death at the age of seventy-three. Harned, a lawyer and one of Whitman's three,