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Oliver’s mini biographies and musings about Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edgar Allen Poe make me want to read their works!
— Feb 21, 2026 11:46AM
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Love how Walt Whitman is described here:
“Except in the hope of better effect, he took up no new subjects, nor altered rhapsodic tenor of his voice here, nor denied any effort of catalog, rhetoric, eroticism, nor trimmed his cadence, nor muted his thunder or sweetness.”
— Feb 26, 2026 10:48AM
“Except in the hope of better effect, he took up no new subjects, nor altered rhapsodic tenor of his voice here, nor denied any effort of catalog, rhetoric, eroticism, nor trimmed his cadence, nor muted his thunder or sweetness.”
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Interesting collection of essays so far. Love the way Oliver speaks about Walt Whitman!
— Jan 25, 2026 01:42PM