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A 10 page essay that contrasts and compares the two writers. This examination uses Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Lawrence's The Rainbow, and also Lawrence's writing in which he overtly expresses this opinion of Whitman in order to comment on how Whitman's work influenced Lawrence, looking at this influence from both a positive and a negative perspective. By examining, first of all, what Lawrence, as a literary critic and also in personal correspondence, wrote about Whitman and then by looking at the two works listed above, it is possible to discern the extent of Whitman's influence on Lawrence.
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were viewed as controversial due to the explicit sexuality and sensuality of their writing and each man was lover of language and an expert in the literary arts. As Joyce
Carol Oates states, Lawrences poetry is "like Whitmans," in that it is a "poetry of the pulsating, carnal self" (Oates 19). Nevertheless, there are also differences, which go beyond the
expected differences in style and subject selection that are evident between any two writers. These differences involve the basic worldview, as well as the differences in their respective eras.
The following examination uses Whitmans Leaves of Grass, Lawrences The Rainbow, and also Lawrences writing in which he overtly expresses this opinion of Whitman in order to comment on how
Whitmans work influenced Lawrence, looking at this influence from both a positive and a negative perspective. By examining, first of all, what Lawrence, as a literary critic and also in
personal correspondence, wrote about Whitman and then by looking at the two works listed above, it is possible to discern the extent of Whitmans influence on Lawrence. Lawrence on
Whitman In his extensive analysis of Lawrences essay on Whitman published in Studies in Classic American Literature, he indicates that the first draft of this essay was probably written in
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of Lawrences essays (Worthen 96). In this version
of the essay, Lawrence is very respectful towards Whitman, referring to him as the "last and greatest of the Americans"; however, even here, he is extremely critical, deploring the way
that Whitman "dumps down cartloads of material...All is shoveled out uninspired" (Worthen 96). Lawrence revised the essay while in Sicily in 1920 and, at this time, continued to insist
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