The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

'Leaves of Grass' [for the New York Saturday Press]

Chilton, Mary A. "'Leaves of Grass' [for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, June 19, 1860, 3.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
literary criticism
Abstract

Chilton finds none of the depravity in Whitman's poetry that some critics do. Instead she sees an unabashed belonging to nature and all of its forms.