Whitman in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Memoirs, and Interviews by Friends and AssociatesJoel Myerson Omnigraphics, 1991 - 348 pages The first volume in a new Omnigraphics series providing firsthand accounts of writers by their contemporaries. The present volume includes interviews and recollections by/with visitors from England and Germany; newspaper interviewers; Whitman's doctor and nurse during his final illness; his literary executors; his first biographers; a child from his early schoolteaching days; and such authors as Bronson Alcott, John Burroughs, Moncure Daniel Conway, Hamlin Garland, Frank Sanborn, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Anon Interview with Whitman St Louis Post Dispatch | 14 |
Richard Maurice Bucke from his Walt Whitman 1883 | 24 |
Quilp George Johnston? Walt Whitman at Home | 51 |
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