Her first public performances were recitations, and she favoured such poetry – well-known passages of Longfellow, Tennyson, Whitman or Kipling – as made its moral meaning plain and expressed it with grandeur and force. It was partly for these exercises that she began the first of several ...
‘due’); another is that nobody thinks that we any longer can project a day (‘fictional’, of course, in Whitman’s time, too–he must have thought that by the ‘force of action in verse’, he cd bring about a Democracy!) whereby by our own doing, we can further the cause of...