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" I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or... "
An American Bible - Page 127
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The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition

Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pages
...enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. (LG, 47-48) Like Olson, Whitman reinstates the body to a central position, acknowledging and honoring...
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The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition

Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pages
...aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis' d in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. (LG, 47-48) Like Olson, Whitman reinstates the body to a central position, acknowledging and honoring...
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Irving Babbitt, Literature, and the Democratic Culture

Milton Hindus - 180 pages
...sustained Whitman, and it seems to me audible in the accentuation of every syllable in such lines as: My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. The meanings of the words culture and literature themselves are ambiguous enough to have made them...
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The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881-1908)

Frank H. Brooks - 1994 - 350 pages
...enough. If no other in the world be aware, I sit content. And if each and all be aware, I sit content. One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself. With Walt one of his most constant and sublime thoughts was his unity and identity, one might almost...
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The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry

Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. 21 I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and...
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Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews

Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 pages
...enough; If no other in the world be aware, I sit content; And if each and all be aware, I sit content. One world is aware, and by far the largest to me,...call dissolution; And I know the amplitude of time. I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I am an encloser of things to be. My feet strike an apex of...
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The Life Power and How to Use It

Elizabeth Towne - 1996 - 184 pages
...I sit content. And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the larger to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my...call dissolution. And I know the amplitude of time. —Walt Whitman. A Look at Heredity. No evolutionist can overlook heredity, nor underestimate it. He...
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Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, 415 And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and...wait. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, 420 I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. 21 I am the poet of the...
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The Boundless Circle: Caring for Creatures and Creation

Michael W. Fox - 1996 - 334 pages
...influenced by Hindu philosophy, captured the essence of reincarnation in the following words from Song of Myself : • And whether I come to my own today or...take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait . . . And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself...
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Bon Echo: The Denison Years

Mary Savigny - 1997 - 148 pages
...DEMOCRATIC IDEALS OF WALT WHITMAN HORACE TRAUBEL AND FLORA M.ACDONALD "MY FOOTHOLD IS TENON'D AND MORTISED IN GRANITE I LAUGH AT WHAT YOU CALL DISSOLUTION AND I KNOW THE AMPLITUDE OF TIME" Flora under the "P". Merrill with small girl on his lap, 1919. canoes. Placing their hands on the Rock,...
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