... past. Stieglitz was the proponent of high modernist art. Henri celebrated democratic vistas and gritty, impoverished urban landscapes in the spirit of his hero, Walt Whitman. He was a partisan of paint applied with gusto and energy. Both men satisfied Man Ray's thirst for theory, his intellectual affinity for ideology ... invited Henri to join the Ferrer School faculty in late 1911 "by then he had painted her portrait and shared his admiration of Walt Whitman with her "and he stayed on for seven years. Robert Henri believed in devoting attention to real subjects in real settings. Glamoriz...

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... is interesting how poets from different writing periods can have similar views. Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." Whitman believed that a poet's thoughts were "hymns of praise" (1855 preface ... was close to impossible, as he seemed to know, because he never offered any way to eliminate these filters. This is where Whitman's method is superior. Whitman presents a method of "transcendence" that involves closing one's eyes, lying in the grass, and expe...

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... transmuted into parts of speech and transcendentalized into a "metaphor of the mind." Or we are once again at Emerson's 1842 lecture "The Poet," the one attended by Walt Whitman in New York City, where Whitman finds Emerson emphasizing the ample world of metaphors awaiting its poet: "There is no word in our language that can not become to us typical of nature by ... ...

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