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Atlantic Monthly

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  • Title: Atlantic Monthly
  • Date: 21 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01277
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 21 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 Jamie DeRousse Jason Stacy Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Atlantic Monthly." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01277.xml (TEI)
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ATLANTIC MONTHLY.1—

The June number of the Atlantic opens with a capital sketch, “Chesuncook,” full of incidents of travel in the region of Moosehead Lake, with the characters and scenery among the lumbermen. The second article is a profound criticism upon Leibnitz.2 A great variety follows—grave and gay, metaphysical and poetic—ending with a strong political disquisition, an attack upon President Buchanan’s3 Kansas policy.

We have selected from the Atlantic a curious poetical lyric, “La Cantatrice,” for our first page to-morrow.

Notes:

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2. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646–1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician. [back]

3. James Buchanan (1791–1868) was the fifteenth President of the United States (1857–1861). Late in life Whitman still considered Buchanan "perhaps the weakest of the President tribe—the very unablest" (With Walt Whitman in Camden, Monday, November 5, 1888). For more information on Whitman and his disdain for Buchanon, see also Bernard Hirschorn, ""To a President" (1860)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]

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