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On Whitman, Dickinson, and Readers
Examines and compares the attitudes of Whitman and Dickinson to their respective (and sometimes imagined) readers; explores the tensions in Whitman between his emphasis on democratic and egalitarian principles and his awareness that "some readers are more equal than others," and proposes that his poems express an appeal "to some \u27choice,\u27 sophisticated and learned readers.