Tag Archives: Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

“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

“When Boston Censored Walt Whitman” (NY Times)

 

‘When Boston Censored Walt Whitman’ – NY Times Magazine 6-19-1927

 

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“When Boston Censored Walt Whitman”

By Frederick P. Hebb Jr.

New York Times Magazine

June 19, 1927

 

– posted by Roger W. Smith

   October 2022