Walt Whitman's Love Poetry // Whitman & Sex
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An episode from 4/9/22: Is Whitman our great poet of love, or of longing? Is there a difference? In this episode, I share my favorite of his love poems, many of which are expressed as unfulfilled longing. They can all be found in \\u2060The Selected Short Poems of Walt Whitman\\u2060, and \\u2060The Selected Long Poems of Walt Whitman\\u2060:
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- Selections from \\u201cSong of Myself\\u201d \\n
- To You \\n
- Once I Pass\\u2019d through a Populous City \\n
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand \\n
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances \\n
- Calamus #8 \\n
- Calamus #9 \\n
- When I Heard at the Close of the Day \\n
- To a Stranger \\n
- When I Peruse the Conquer\\u2019d Fame \\n
- Thou Reader \\n
- I Sing the Body Electric \\n
Following these poems (at around 1:06:57), I\\u2019ve inserted a reading from a previous episode on Whitman\\u2019s love and sex life, from Paul Zweig\\u2019s book, \\u2060Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet\\u2060.
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