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Blackwood for May

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  • Title: Blackwood for May
  • Date: 27 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01273
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 27 May 1858: 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: Kaylen Michaelis Francesca Boston Jason Stacy Karie Cobb Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Blackwood for May." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01273.xml (TEI)
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BLACKWOOD1 FOR MAY.—

The first article in this number is a continuation of the interesting series entitled “Food and Drink,” which has already attracted a good deal of attention for the bold way in which it deals with many of the hitherto received notions of health, physiology, &c. According to this writer, much that the “reformers” say is nonsense, especially all extremes of temperance and vegetarianism.

The other articles of the number are devoted to India, Italy, “Colleges and Celibacy,” “Antiquities of Kertch,” &c.

Notes:

1. Blackwood's Magazine, or Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, was a monthly magazine created by William Blackwood in 1817. Though it was published in Scotland it quickly attracted a wide readership in Great Britain and the U.S., especially for its fiction offerings. For more information, see David Finkelstein, The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Age? (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002). [back]

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