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Whitmanesque, a.|hwɪtməˈnɛsk|
[f. the name Whitman + -esque.]
Characteristic or suggestive of Walt Whitman (1819–92), U.S. poet, or of his poetry.
1882Good Lit. Sept. 2 Clever persons can manufacture Whitmanesque verse quite equal to the average of the original. 1901E. Crosby Edward Carpenter 6 The long series of poems in Towards Democracy is with few exceptions written in the Whitmanesque meter, or lack of meter. 1913W. De La Mare in Edin. Rev. Jan. 193 Eloquence and facility are the danger of Whitmanesque verse of this nature. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 281 There is very little Whitmanesque acceptance of life about the artist of today. 1957P. Wildeblood Main Chance 152 They have a Whitmanesque simplicity that we've quite lost. 1977Time 1 Aug. 50/2 Such a collage has an effect of Whitmanesque tenderness.
So (mostly somewhat nonce) Whitmaˈnese, the characteristic style or diction of Whitman; Whitˈmania, (a) [-mania], (a punning word for) exaggerated admiration for Whitman; (b) [-ia1], writings pertaining to Whitman; Whitˈmaniac, a devotee of Whitman; Whitˈmanian a. = Whitmanesque a.; Whitˈmanian n., an admirer or imitator of Whitman; ˈWhitmanish a. = Whitmanesque a.; ˈWhitmanism, Whitman's metrical or poetical style; a feature of this; ˈWhitmanist, ˈWhitmanite, a Whitmanian; ˈWhitmanize v. intr., to write in the manner of Whitman; Whitˈmannic a. = Whitmanesque a.
1887Whitmania [see Brontëan a.]. 1887M. Berenson Let. 6 Jan. in Strachey & Samuels M. Berenson (1983) ii. 36, I was a Whitmanite at Smith College. 1889Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Jan. 3/2 Having thus to a certain degree settled upon what one might call the technique of Whitmanism, he began to brood upon the nature of that spirit that was to give life to the strange form. 1893R. Le Gallienne Retrosp. Rev. (1896) I. 213 ‘I see twenty-two young men from Foster's watching me, and the trousers of the twenty-two young men’ is irresistible Whitmanese. 1894Nation 7 June 433/1 One of the worst of Whitmanisms, the interlarding of foreign words. 1902Academy 16 Aug. 173/1 Mr. Moody does not Whitmanise on the one hand, or follow the outworn Tennysonian convention on the other. 1906Dial (Chicago) 1 Mar. 144/2 Much of the conversation reported is trivial to all but ardent Whitmanites. 1918Cambr. Hist. Amer. Lit. II. iii. i. 267 Whitmanism..has already had the ironical fate of developing something not unlike a cult. a1930D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 269 Whitmanish ‘adhesiveness’ of the social creature. 1934Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Aug. 586/3 Before Rossetti established himself publicly as the principal English Whitmanist, ‘Leaves of Grass’ had been the subject of several reviews.
1948L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. 218 The first [sc. the old alexandrine], Claudel replaced by the Biblical and Whitmanian verset. 1953A. Alpers Katherine Mansfield 124 Thus reminded that she had a country of her own, Katherine addressed to Wyspiański another of her Whitmanish declamations. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Oct. 594/4 A foreword by Mr. Charles E. Feinberg, the noted Whitmaniac of Detroit. a1960E. M. Forster Maurice (1971) 217 Edward Carpenter..was..a Whitmannic poet whose nobility exceeded his strength. 1964New Statesman 13 Mar. 414/3 The presses groan with Whitmania. 1977Listener 30 June 866/3 The Fabian Society..sprang from an idealistic society called the Fellowship of the New Life, much influenced by the Whitmanian, Edward Carpenter. |