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2r36tx33n8n	Joel Duncan	The Song in the Machine: Organic Forms of American Poetry	1904		.txt	text/plain	359	12	33	This dissertation argues that their innovations, rather than mere freaks of fancy, have harnessed the machinery of capitalist development toward poetic ends. Chapter One considers Whitman's confrontation with industrial capitalism and slavery, elaborating how the hum produced by his loafer in the grass transforms the abstract equality inherent in wage labor toward poetic song.	cache/2r36tx33n8n.txt	txt/2r36tx33n8n.txt