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essentially, top-down reforms utterly without Whitman’s ontological change of
mind. Though the decline of unionism in the late-twentieth century is beyond the
scope of this article, it is clear that, as of the writing of this piece. Whitman’s
vision of a symphonic republic and economy is still largely academic.
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Notes
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Betsy Erkila. Whitman the Political Poet. 1989, 151.
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Ibid, 113.
2 . David Reynolds. Walt Whitman's America. 1995, 153.
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Christopher Beach. The Politics of Distinction. 1996, 15.
John Higham. Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture. New Haven, Yale
University Press, 2001
Malcolm Cowley, Leaves of Grass, Penguin Classics Introduction, 6
Walt Whitman, Leaves o f Grass, Introduction, Library o f America, 1995, 7.
Temperance Society, “First Annual Report” The Free Enquirer, New York, 3/25/1829, in Wilentz,
135.
Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic, 1985, 148.
“Man,” 2/20/1830, in Wilenz, 150.
Temperance Society, “First Annual Report”, in Wilentz, 148.
Wilentz, 149.
Ibid, 150
Horace Secrist, “The Anti-Auction Movement and the New York Workingmen’s Party o f 1829”,
Transactions o f the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, 17 (1914), in Wilentz 149166.
Alexander H.H. Stuart, “Anniversary Address Before the American Institute,” 1844, in Wilentz
303.
Ibid, 303.
Wilentz, 153
Correspondent, 7/7/1827, in Wilentz, 154.
Robert Owen, A New View of Society, 1817, 19-24.
Robert Blatchly, “Working Man’s Advocate,” 11/14/1829, in Wilentz 159.
Wilentz, 327-328.
Mike Walsh, “Subterranean,” 3/22, 6/14, 7/25, 9/25/1845, in Wilentz 331.
Ibid, 11/8/1845, in Wilentz 332.
Ibid, in Wilentz, 332.
David Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000,
17.
Ibid, 20.
Reynolds, Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, 22-26.
David Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America, New York: Knopf Publishing, 1995, 26.
Walt Whitman, Notes and Fragments, Richard Maurice, ed.. New York: Burke Publishing, 1899,
70.
Clarence Gohdes ed.. Faint Clews and Indirections: Manuscripts o f Walt Whitman and His Family,
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1949, 19.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Penguin Classics edition, 5.
Ibid, 6.
Ibid, 8.
Ibid, 9.
Ojford English Dictionary, 1937, 1685.