Kavanagh
poem by Longfellow
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comparison with Whitman’s poetry
- In Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
…character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Kavanagh (1849), “a national literature altogether shaggy and unshorn, that shall shake the earth, like a herd of buffaloes thundering over the prairies.” With the same fervour, Whitman declared in his 1855 preface, “Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance…
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