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Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions, I feel that they were creditable—and I accept
Or rather, to be quite exact, a desire that had been flitting through my previous life, or hovering on
feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form and uncompromisingly my
in a few lines, I shall only say the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of life to my
Difficult as it will be it has become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from superior
And in my own day and maturity, my eyes have seen and ears heard, Lincoln, Grant and Emerson, and my
I have put my name with pen and ink with my own hand in the present volume.
I felt it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in my old ones: to formulate a poem whose
, and has been the comfort of my life since it was originally commenced.
Then the simile of my friend, John Burroughs, is entirely true.
Whatever may be said for the genius that created the peculiar style of (and, for my part, I think a great
Yet it would be wrong not to correct my criticism about Whitman's style by pointing out that there are
. * "No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or as aiming
Leaves of Grass has been chiefly the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature—an attempt
day, there can be no such thing as a long poem, fascinated him: "The same thought had been haunting my
flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and arous'd (of course, I don't mean in my
"I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme.