Excerpt from Walt Whitman: The Prophet-Poet In the early weeks of the year of 1907 my eyes were very bad; evenings I could read but little; sometimes it was a few pages, sometimes only a few lines, then I must close the book and brood, ponder, think over what I had read. For such form of reading the poets surpassed all others, and I soon found that Whitman sur passed the other poets; that from him I received the strongest stirrings of my emotions and thoughts. Thereupon I turned to study this man Whit man; I had access to ...
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Excerpt from Walt Whitman: The Prophet-Poet In the early weeks of the year of 1907 my eyes were very bad; evenings I could read but little; sometimes it was a few pages, sometimes only a few lines, then I must close the book and brood, ponder, think over what I had read. For such form of reading the poets surpassed all others, and I soon found that Whitman sur passed the other poets; that from him I received the strongest stirrings of my emotions and thoughts. Thereupon I turned to study this man Whit man; I had access to a fine private collection of Whitman matter, as well as the public libra ries, and for several we. -s I saturated myself with Whitman; what he had written, what had been written about him. That was six years ago, but Whitman does not lose his grip on me he lasts, he wears he touches life and feel ing at so many places that I believe he will last and wear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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