...the crashing, ten-cylinder presses which turn them out? Whitman — how else can I express it? — precipitated the American character. All those things...ideal, which is based upon the whole personality. Every strong personal impulse, every cooperating and unifying impulse, everything that enriches the...

...expression to an immense and unassembled medley of races. And it was Whitman who, as Brooks aptly puts it, " precipitated the American character. All those things...ideal, which is based upon the whole personality. Every strong personal impulse, every cooperating and unifying impulse, everything that enriches the...

...it, "precipitated the American character. All those things which had been separate, self -sufficient, incoordinate — action, theory, idealism, business...ideal, which is based upon the whole personality. Every strong personal impulse, every cooperating and unifying impulse, everything that enriches the...

...of gathering human experience almost as great as that of the hero of the Odyssey. . . . Everything which had been separate, self-sufficient, incoordinate...harmonious and molten, in a fresh democratic ideal based upon the whole personality." With Whitman, then, for the first time, a great organic personality...

...power of gathering human experience as Ulysses of old. "Whitman — how else can I express it? — precipitated the American character. All those things...molten, in a fresh democratic ideal, which is based on the whole personality." He was the focal center for America, as Virgil for Rome. And he points the...

...things that had been separate, self-sufficient, incoordinate—action, theory, idealism, business—he cast into a crucible; and they emerged, harmonious and molten, in a fresh democratic ideal, based upon the whole personality." But Whitman had only partly captured the ideal of experience Brooks...

...satisfaction to transcend his persistent dichotomies. That was Walt Whitman, who for Brooks, quite simply "precipitated the American character. All those things...ideal, which is based upon the whole personality" ("America's," 131). Brooks argued that Whitman, of all the American writers, managed not only to literally...

...any native artist — was to "precipitate" the American character. In this transformative process, "All those things which had been separate, self-sufficient,...ideal, which is based upon the whole personality" (p. 118). Whitman acted in an exemplary fashion when he bequeathed to America the radical democratic...