... convention in the seventeenth century to the lyric nineteenth-century paeans to individualism by Emerson ("Self-Reliance"), Thoreau ("Civil Disobedience"), and Whitman ("Song of Myself") to Sherwood Anderson's twentieth-century celebration of the struggle against conformism by ordinary citizens in Winesburg, Ohio to...

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... or that which I imagine myself to be a shark-toothed ...And two very long American songs and they wish there were ... some more very long American songs Poor little Bomb that'll ...read Herrick, read Kipling, read Whitman. You want antideath poetry, read...one. Tsk squared. You mention Whitman, a fave of Ginsberg, but...