Discusses a period in the 1880s when Edmund Clarence Stedman, Bayard Taylor, and William Dean Howells, all of whom had previously been connected with the Pfaff's scene to one degree or another, openly discussed in the public press the status of Walt Whitman's career as a poet, particularly as it related to his publication record in American magazines.
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MENTIONED IN - Whitman and the Magazines: Some Documentary Evidence