The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript;

— Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”

 

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See the following PDFs:

William White, “A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman,”‘ American Literature, Vol. 42, No. 4 (January 1971)

William White, ‘A Tribute to William Hartshorne’

 

Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman, pp. 17-19

Gay Wilson Allen, ‘The Solitary Singer’ pp 17-19

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   December 2023