| To the Fabians, Morris was, of course, was one of the great social prophets and Whitman the great singer. |
| Whitman emerged a mature poet, ready to weld together the nation that had survived. |
| Hopkins and Whitman appropriately shared a metric that suited their commitment to the natural. |
| Whitman hoped that the tedium and pettiness of his senior years would not infect his poetry. |
| In the late 1860s Whitman received overdue recognition in America as the early reactions to his radical style began to fade. |
| Some kids emerged as the true heirs of Whitman, barbaric yawpers singing their own songs of themselves. |
