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New Poetry and New America
Elliott, G. R. | November 30, 1918 issue

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In its chief ideas the new poetry is the result, not, as the U.S. leading poets assume, of a departure from the social outlook which dominated the poetry of the past century, but of a devolution which went on within confines of that outlook. Poet Walter Whitman was a great national poet in that he represented more completely than any other an important phase of the American national spirit, a phase which will soon be generally regarded as belonging to the ancient it history. Materialism became a positive social movement of the civilized world in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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POETRY; WHITMAN, Walt, 1819-1892; POETS; MATERIALISM; SOCIAL movements; UNITED States
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