When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.
There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
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