Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

"Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass." New-York Saturday Press, May 19, 1860, 2.

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newspaper

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review

Abstract

Glowing remarks about the freshness and inimitability of Whitman's published work.

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Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

An electronic version of this text is available in a CONTENTdm viewer. Page images of The New York Saturday Press were scanned from microfilm owned by Emory University, which was made from original copies held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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Clapp, Henry

Born in Massachusetts to a family of merchants and seamen, Clapp traveled to Paris to translate the socialist writing

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Clapp, Henry

Clapp is a probably author of this review given his role as editor of the Saturday Press and his commitment to promoting Whitman's poetry.

Whitman, Walt

Winter, William

Winter includes this review in one of his scrapbooks from the early 1860s (held at the Folger Shakespeare Library) alongside other articles that he wrote for the Saturday Press at the time, suggesting that he, and not Henry Clapp, is the author.

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