Born in Massachusetts to a family of merchants and seamen, Clapp traveled to Paris to translate the socialist writing
Glowing remarks about the freshness and inimitability of Whitman's published work.
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.
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.
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.
Born in Massachusetts to a family of merchants and seamen, Clapp traveled to Paris to translate the socialist writing
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.
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