‘Have the elder races halted?’: British Socialist Readings of ‘Pioneers! O Pioneers!’
This short essay analyses British socialist readings of Walt Whitman’s ‘Pioneers! O Pioneers!’ and explores some of the ways in which the poem was appropriated for the socialist movement. Despite its overt American nationalism, ‘Pioneers’ was one of the key Whitman poems for British socialists: extr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2009-11-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/521 |