“Whitman wanted his poetry to be ‘a song of the great pride that man feels in himself,’ and to achieve this he recognized no limits to the investigation of complex human psychology, thus giving rise to the accusations of the Puritans and the persecutions of the Philistines.\u00a0At the same time, he tried to give his own version of the American dream, as he saw it, in harmony with the great transformations of the society of which he was a witness and a prophet.\u00a0His poetry is a wide muddy river that glorifies Nature and Man, full of lyricism, eroticism, pagan tendencies, psychological approaches, philosophical allusions, political observations, social criticism, metaphysical flashes.\u00a0Rightly considered the founder of American poetry,\u00a0who influenced and continues to influence all later poets.”\u00a0from the introduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Whitman wanted his poetry to be ‘a song of the great pride that man feels in himself,’ and to achieve this he recognized no limits to the investigation of complex human psychology, thus giving rise to the accusations of the Puritans and the persecutions of the Philistines.\u00a0At the same time, he tried to give his own version of the American dream, as he saw it, in harmony with the great transformations of the society of which he was a witness and a prophet.\u00a0His poetry is a wide muddy river that glorifies Nature and Man, full of lyricism, eroticism, pagan tendencies, psychological approaches, philosophical allusions, political observations, social criticism, metaphysical flashes.\u00a0Rightly considered the founder of American poetry,\u00a0who influenced and continues to influence all later poets.”\u00a0from the introduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2214,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[449],"product_tag":[],"authors":[364],"translators":[424],"class_list":{"0":"post-2717","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-foreign-poetry","7":"authors-whitman-wall","8":"translators-horoskelis-dimitris","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n