Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors

Wolfe, Theodore F. Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1895.

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book

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travelogue

literary criticism

biography

history

Abstract

The final chapter of this book, "A Day with the Good Gray Poet," recounts the author's conversation with Walt Whitman at Whitman's home in Camden, New Jersey, towards the end of the poet's life. In the course of their conversation Whitman reflects with affection upon fellow Pfaffian George Arnold, whom "Whitman loved and mourned . . . tenderly " (210).

People Mentioned in this Work

Arnold, George [pages: 210]

Wolfe writes of his conversation with Whitman in the chapter "A Day with the Good Gray Poet" that upon "[m]entioning George Arnold,--'Doubly dead because he died so young,'--we find that Whitman loved and mourned him tenderly" (210).