Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." ... Seeing as how Rilke had such a troubled life, as well as the fact that he was a rather dour German, probably not, but it still makes one think Whitman believed that the self was an amalgam of all people - alive or dead, good or bad - in the world. ... His life source was what we were missing about the world, but could never achieve. ... Instead of offering a way to connect with this fountain, or this fig tre...

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One day at Stieglitz's he heard about an ongoing series of art classes and lectures sponsored by the Ferrer Modern School, which had just moved to a brownstone building at 63 East 107th Street from downtown headquarters, first at St. ... The trip was made even more tolerable by the fact that Robert Henri was the art teacher. ... Henri celebrated democratic vistas and gritty, impoverished urban landscapes in the spirit of his hero, Walt Whitman. ... Emma Goldman invited Henri to join the Ferrer School faculty in late 1911 "by then he had painted her portrait and shared his admiration...

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In doing so, critics continue to mistake the fact that Emerson offers in his later work and its focus on metonymy something of a "counteraesthetics" to his own earlier conception of metaphorical nature. (11) In this later work that conceives of a natural history or natural method of mind in organic, biological relation to matter, a conception informed by changing views of both matter and mind found in the nineteenth-century natural science he observes in his writings, Emerson revises his poetics of transcendental idealism by shifting the rhetorical grounding from metaphor to metonymy. ... Emer...

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