Introduction, ‘The Half-Breed and Other Stories’

I have obtained a rare book:

The Half-Breed and Other Stories by Walt Whitman

Collected and Edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott

Columbia University Press, 1927

I have posted here the Introduction by the editor, Thomas Ollive Mabbott. The pages were difficult to copy due to the book’s tight binding.

The early stories by Whitman in this hook have been reprinted in Walt Whitman, The Early Poems and the Fiction, edited by Thomas L. Brasher (New York University Press, 1963).

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   March 2023