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Literary Intelligence

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  • Title: Literary Intelligence
  • Date: 14 August 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01158
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 14 August 1857: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Thara Michaelis Kaylen Michaelis Jamie DeRousse Jason Stacy Karie Cobb Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Literary Intelligence." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01158.xml (TEI)
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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—

It is reported that T.B. Aldrich,1 author of “Babie Bell,” a plagiarism from Gerald Massey’s “Ballad of Babe Christabel,” is engaged upon another infantine effusion, to be called “The Blessed Bogus Baby,” and founded upon recent well-known events. Probably Harper’s Weekly will secure the prize. Readers of the puling, Tennyson—and water, school will doubtless take notice.

Notes:

1. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) was associated with Henry Clapp's Saturday Press from 1858 until its final number in 1860; see Ferris Greenslet, The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Co., 1908), 37–49. Aldrich also served as editor of the Atlantic Monthly. from 1881 to 1890. For Aldrich's opinion of Whitman's poetry, see Greenslet, 138–139. [back]

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