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The Lunar Light of Whitman’s Poetry
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Walt Whitman stands freshly illuminated in this powerful portrait of the poet responding to his times.Whitman's idealistic expectations of democracy were painfully eroded by the rapidly expanding urban capitalism that, before the Civil War, increasingly threatened the economic and political power of the ordinary American. His poetry during this, his most fruitful period, became the indispensable medium allowing him to adjust to these developments.
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