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Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 26 May [1883]

I congratulate you on the live and telling piece in to-day's C[ritic]. It is the best paper that has appeared at any time in that Weekly1—I am well—

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Notes

  • 1. Kennedy's "The Obsolescence of Barrel-Organ Poetry," which appeared in The Critic on May 26, attacked conventional rhyme and meter in poetry, and praised the new freedom in the music and poetry of Wagner and Walt Whitman. See also the letter from Whitman to Kennedy of May 31, 1883. [back]
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