Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Of all the placid hours in his peaceful life, those that Walt Whitman spent on the stage of Horticultural Hall last night must have been among the most gratifying, says the Philadelphia Press of October 22, 1890. To a testimonial, intended to cheer his declining years, not onl...
Of all the placid hours in his peaceful life, those that Walt Whitman spent on the stage of Horticultural Hall last night must have been among the most gratifying, says the Phil...
2. Part 2Walt Whitman is the poet of Individuality--the defender of the rights of each for the sake of all--and his sympathies are as wide as the world. He is the defender of the whole r...
3. Part 3Take a grain of sand, reduce it to powder, take the smallest possible particle, look at it with a microscope, contemplate its every part for days, and it remains the citadel of...
4. Part 4The titles of the chapters, in detail, are: Sacred Books of the World, The Christian Bible, Formation of the Canoa, Different Versions of the Bible, Authorship and Dates, The Pe...