The Calamity of Calamus

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English

 

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Robert J

 

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May 20, 2015

 

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One of his most criticized works was his 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. The Calamus section in particular caused the most controversy because of its explicit nature. Calamus was seen as bold, as well as an insult to society. Live Oak, with Moss = Calamus Originally Walt Whitman wrote some of the poems in Calamus under the title of Live Oak, with Moss (Miller 130)...
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He later revised and edited these poems due to their explicit content and his unwillingness to be that open. (Sex, Politics, and "Live Oak with Moss"). Fredson Bowers is credited with discovering "Live Oak, with Moss". He had found that Whitman had written a twelve poem sequence, which around early 1859 Whitman had copied into a notebook...
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