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Predavanje gostujuće profesorke Manhattan's Son Rises:
Heart, mind, and soul went into the creation of Whitman’s radically new and distinctly American literature. Less obvious are the contributions made with his own hands. For the young Walter Whitman first learned to love language not at home or at school, but at work as a manual laborer and craftsman in New York City. During the period now known as New York’s “go ahead years” or the “seed-time of Leaves of Grass”, a revolution occurred in the printing and publishing industries. The rise of the American penny press in the early nineteenth century enabled a grammar school dropout to find employment at a Brooklyn printing office in 1831. In his later years, Whitman romanticized the working class origins of Leaves of Grass by describing his “initiation into the trade and mystery of our printing craft.” Learning to love the shape and feel of each letter as a printer’s apprentice, Whitman came to recognize extraordinary possibilities of these ordinary implements, and the poetry in prosaic employ.
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