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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on July 23, 2008
Literary Imagination 2009 11(1):1-25; doi:10.1093/litimag/imn030
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"Digression Personified: Whitman, The New York School, and the Drift of Poetry"

Srikanth Reddy*

*Prof. Srikanth Reddy, Department of English, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637

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Marry. Library erected. Manner of conducting the Project. Its plan and Utility. Children. Almanack. the Use I made of it. Great Industry. Constant Study. Fathers Remark and Advice upon Diligence. Carolina Partnership. Learn French and German. Journey to Boston after 10 years. Affection of my Brother. His Death and leaving me his Son. Art of Virtue.1

The outline to The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin presents modern readers with a blueprint for the rational, orderly, and deliberate construction of an Enlightenment self upon the unruly terrain of a New World. In Franklin's schema, marriage, Great Industry, savvy business partnerships, Constant Study, fatherhood, and the author's famous experiment in the Art of Virtue are carefully assembled like so many units of masonry within a deliberate architectural design. Yet, this idealized blueprint for the autobiography, like the arrangement of moral values into a chart for self-examination in Franklin's "Art of Virtue" experiment, also . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The Drift of Poetry
 

   The Drift of Conversation
 

   Abstraction
 

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