[New-Poetry] Il Miglior Fabbro

[Robin Hamilton]

This is one of those Irreconcilable Differences ...

Dickinson is Dostoevsky to Whitman's Tolstoy.

To (to be crude) for some of us, Whitman and Tolstoy both, are rather large lumps of soggy blamange pudding, the Higher Gossip with precious little craft for added value.

        (As an American not unrelated to William James suggested.)

Dmitri 4thI

From: David Graham 
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  Hard to think of any yardstick by which Whitman is not the father of American poetry--in terms of scope, craft, theme, diction, ambition, influence on later poets, 

          Longfellow, anyone?
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