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Walt Whitman's "Eidolon"

Carpenter, Frederic I. "Walt Whitman's "Eidolon"." College English. 1942. 534-545.
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Whitman, Walt [pages:534-545]

Carpenter discusses Whitman's real-life and literary personas and claims that Whitman was more of "a reformer than a bohemian." Carpenter also claims that Whitman's self-written biography for Burroughs' biography was an important fictional creation of Whitman's literary persona.

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Whitman, Walt

Born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman spent his childhood and early adulthood amid the sights and sounds of New York City and its environs.