Both Uses of
coterie
in
Leaves of Grass
- Not Youth Pertains to Me Not youth pertains to me, Nor delicatesse, I cannot beguile the time with talk, Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant, In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me, Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me, I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier, And at intervals waiting or in the midst of camp, Composed these songs.†
Chpt 21
- Are you not of some coterie? some school or mere religion?†
Chpt 23 *
Definition:
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(coterie) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose