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Glasgow's industrial Whitman.(Cathures: New Poems 1997-2001)(Love and a Life: 50 Poems)(Book Review)
Cathures: New Poems 1997-2001, by Edwin Morgan; Carcanet, 2002, $27.95.
Love and a Life: 50 Poems, by Edwin Morgan; Mariscat Press, 2003, about $30.
UNROOTED IN TRADITION, maverick, effortlessly original, populist, effusive--these were the qualities which Tocqueville, writing in the 1830s, predicted would characterise the coming American poet. America duly got them all in the form of Walt Whitman (although it also got his antitype, Emily Dickinson, whose line "Renunciation--is the Choosing/Against itself' steers towards a kind of exultant abnegation entirely closed off to the priapic Whitman). With the growth of transatlantic trade Walt Juniors began ...
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