Love of Comrades: The Urbanization of Community in Walt Whitman's Poetry and Pragmatist Philosophy

摘要

Argues that u22the social crisis produced by urbanization shaped Whitmanu27s poetry and pragmatist thought in similar ways,u22 and examines Whitmanu27s struggles with skepticism and relativism in light of his straddling of rural and urban experience, finding that Whitmanu27s u22untamed flow of sympathyu22 in his urban poems of 1855 and 1856 gives way to an increasing u22urbane doubtu22 and u22withdrawal from the cityu22 in his 1860 u22Calamusu22 poems.