American Literature

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He made an extended trip on foot through the South and West and Canada. During the war he served in the army hospitals, where exposure brought on a severe illness from the effects of which he never fully recovered. From 1865 to 1874 he held a government clerkship in Washington, and thereafter spent his remaining years 428 AMERICAN LITERATURE [CHAP.
at Camden in easy penury and the quiet enjoyment of fame as "the good gray poet. " " Leaves of Grass " first appeared in 1855, and under this title
...all of his poetical work is now collected. The new poet made his theatrical debut, thus heralding himself: No dainty dolce affettuoso I.
Bearded, sunburnt, gray-necked, forbidding, I have arrived, To be wrestled with as I pass for the solid prizes of the uni verse.
And to the spotted hawk swooping across his vision he cries ecstatically : I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
A few readers, startled by this strange sound, looked into the book, found its crudeness and vulgarity " un translatable " indeed, and it dropped out of notice.


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