WWQR > Vol. 6 (1988) > No. 4
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Proposes that "Whitman in his later years enacted a comic 're-pose' beholden to a western tradition of comedy and a stoic ethos of 'playing one's part' in Nature's cosmic drama," and emphasizes the poet's "increasing dependence upon Stoic detachment" that "masked a level of anxiety the poet perhaps could hardly admit to himself."
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Copyright © 1989 by The University of Iowa.
Recommended Citation
Hutchinson, George B.. ""The Laughing Philosopher": Whitman's Comic Repose." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Spring 1989), 172-188.
Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol6/iss4/3
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