“Every thing is literally photographed. Nothing is poeticized.”

 

McClatchy, ‘An American Bard at 150’

 

“In these Leaves,” Whitman said, “every thing is literally photographed. Nothing is poeticized.”—J,D. McClatchy, The New York Sun

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“An American Bard at 150”

By J.D. McClatchy

The New York Sun

April 1, 2005

J. D. McClatchy (1945-2018) was an American poet, opera librettist, and literary critic.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   July 2023

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