 The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art — I will not be meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any elegance,...  The Cheltonian - Page 220by Cheltenham College - 1868Full view - About this book
 | 1899 - 908 lehte
...straining for verbal effects, I love to recall this passage from Whitman. The great poet, he says, fi swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome. I will...in the way between .me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what... | |
 | 1909 - 498 lehte
...the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 lehte
...channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what... | |
 | Leo J. Eiden - 1981 - 1298 lehte
...things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I ivill not be meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what... | |
 | Stephen Tapscott - 1984 - 284 lehte
...channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. . . . He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome. I.... . . What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. (LOG, p. 717) To Williams, the Whitmanian form — joyously free of European influence but ultimately... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1961 - 196 lehte
...without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not t>e meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any elegance...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in jhe way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what... | |
 | Michael Clark - 1987 - 186 lehte
...without increase or diminution."13 Instead of being "meddlesome," Whitman says in his 1855 Preface, "I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect...between me and the rest like curtains. . . . What I tell 1 tell for precisely what it is."14 This passage suggests empirical reporting. Although, of course,... | |
 | Ann Davis - 1992 - 252 lehte
...channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art 'I will not be meddlesome, I...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains ... What I experience or portray shall... | |
 | Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 lehte
...a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution. . . . He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I...between me and the rest like curtains. . . . What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred of my composition." Preface 1855,... | |
 | Martin Orzeck, Robert Weisbuch - 1996 - 296 lehte
...be lost between medium and message: "The greatest poet," he said, is "the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not even the richest curtains. What I tell I tell precisely for... | |
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