Henry Thoreau and the Wisdom of Words

Whitman’s Metro-Poetic Lettrism: The Mannahatta Skyline as Sentence, Syntax, and Spell

“…Philip F. Gura describes an Emerson who clings to a neo-Platonic, tripartite separation between words and things and the Spirit, 46 but Whitman is a self-professed poet of "inseparable cities" 47 and their inseparable names and realities, not only a bard of that paradoxical sub-genre the urban pastoral, but also an elegiac futurist and a nostalgic neophile.…”