but can see `` the hereafter in the present '' every bit good. `` Poets, harmonizing to the fortunes of the age and state in which they appeared, were
poets in American literature. In the cluster of poems he called Leaves of Grass; he gives America its first genuine epic poem. In Leaves of Grass, with the frequent use of colloquial language and everyday events, his verses present a turning point in the history of American poetry--poetry ...