Born into an anti-slavery family of eight children, Howells aided his family by setting type in his journalist father
A consideration of Whitman's language that leads the critic to conclude his speech is too vulgar.
"Nearly a year ago, the bull [Whitman] put his head through the New York Saturday Press enclosure, and bellowed loud, long, and unintelligibly."
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Born into an anti-slavery family of eight children, Howells aided his family by setting type in his journalist father
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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