The man, Whitman, and the child overlap: disenchantment and curiosity are peculiar to the child and to the poet as well and they urge them to overcome the first perception of reality making that man a child, thus a poet, whose talent lies in his ability to see beyond material appearances. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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