Whitmanesqueadj.

1882 Good Lit. Sept. 2 Clever persons can manufacture Whitmanesque verse quite equal to the average of the original.

1901 E. 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.

1913 W. De La Mare in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 193 Eloquence and facility are the danger of Whitmanesque verse of this nature.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 281 There is very little Whitmanesque acceptance of life about the artist of today.

1957 P. Wildeblood Main Chance 152 They have a Whitmanesque simplicity that we've quite lost.

1977 Time 1 Aug. 50/2 Such a collage has an effect of Whitmanesque tenderness.

1893 R. 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.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 3/1 The blusterous Brontëism which..is an affliction hardly less ludicrous than Whitmania.

1964 New Statesman 13 Mar. 414/3 The presses groan with Whitmania.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Oct. 594/4 A foreword by Mr. Charles E. Feinberg, the noted Whitmaniac of Detroit.

1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. 218 The first [sc. the old alexandrine], Claudel replaced by the Biblical and Whitmanian verset.

1977 Listener 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.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 269 Whitmanish ‘adhesiveness’ of the social creature.

1953 A. Alpers Life K. Mansfield 124 Thus reminded that she had a country of her own, Katherine addressed to Wyspiański another of her Whitmanish declamations.

1889 Pall 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.

1894 Nation 7 June 433/1 One of the worst of Whitmanisms, the interlarding of foreign words.

1918 Cambr. Hist. Amer. Lit. II. iii. i. 267 Whitmanism..has already had the ironical fate of developing something not unlike a cult.

1934 Times 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.

1887 M. Berenson Let. 6 Jan. in Strachey & Samuels M. Berenson (1983) ii. 36 I was a Whitmanite at Smith College.

1906 Dial (Chicago) 1 Mar. 144/2 Much of the conversation reported is trivial to all but ardent Whitmanites.

1902 Academy 16 Aug. 173/1 Mr. Moody does not Whitmanise on the one hand, or follow the outworn Tennysonian convention on the other.

a1960 E. M. Forster Maurice (1971) 217 Edward Carpenter..was..a Whitmannic poet whose nobility exceeded his strength.