id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ltmkmxbzbvadzktfpedgwmxcd4 Jason Frank Aesthetic Democracy: Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the People 2007.0 30 .pdf application/pdf 14577 996 58 The vox populi of Whitman's people, and of the democracy they enact, resides by political institutions.5 For Whitman, in effect, "the people are always ment, see David Reynolds' Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (New York: 22Taken from Betsy Erkkila, Whitman the Political Poet (New York: Oxford University work, but Whitman's embrace of a radical democratic politics works to edition of Leaves, Whitman opened aesthetics to democratic politics and lyric poetry) and the formalism of political institutions, Whitman hoped to Whitman's putatively democratic politics, his loathing of corrupt institutions Whitman's poetry presented a "vulgar" or "promiscuous" democratic people democracy (it production of a multitudinous democratic self), and Whitman democratic power of the people, Whitman does not attempt a usurpation of Aesthetic Democracy: Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the People [pp. Aesthetic Democracy: Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the People [pp. Aesthetic Democracy: Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the People [pp. ./cache/work_ltmkmxbzbvadzktfpedgwmxcd4.pdf ./txt/work_ltmkmxbzbvadzktfpedgwmxcd4.txt