“How the Civil War Transformed American Literature”: A Talk by Randall Fuller | Humanities Texas

Source: “How the Civil War Transformed American Literature”: A Talk by Randall Fuller | Humanities Texas

“If the American literature that Emerson had summoned into being in the 1830s and ‘40s helped galvanize opinion that led to the Civil War, the Civil War in turn changed what that literature would be, and this poem by Whitman is just an example of that.”

Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman  “I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of ‘Leaves of Grass.’ I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.”

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