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its Dantesque horror, and then, brooding over brotherhood, union, democracy, sang 'Leaves of Grass,' 'My
Captain,' 'Calamus,' and all that me quoque which forms the essential germ of the Whitman gospel: egotism
People who know absolutely nothing of his writing, either prose or verse, who have not read even "O Captain
, My Captain," do not hesitate to assail him, to excoriate him, to blackguard him with a vehemence which
I will also want my utterances to be in spirit poems of the morning.
I have wished to put the complete union of the states in my songs without any preference or partiality
Then the simile of my friend, John Burroughs, is entirely true, 'his glove is a glove of silk, but the
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.
"I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme.
Whitman tells us, "Ever since what might be call'd thought, or the budding of thought, fairly began in my
I felt it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in my old ones; to formulate a poem whose
My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of those elements
, and has been the comfort of my life since it was originally commenced."
"After completing my poems," then, writes Mr.
"That I have not gain'd the acceptance of my own time; that from a worldly and business point of view
I had my choice when I commenced.
"The best comfort of the whole business is that I have had my say entirely my own way—the value thereof
No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance."
. * "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.
or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary and poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my
say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly on record."
In another place the feeling of pride leads to this exclamation: "My Book and I—what a period we have
Difficult as it will be, it has become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from
These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet, For them thy faith, thy role I take, and grave it to
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
I round and finish little, if anything; and could not consistently with my scheme.
"'Leaves of Grass' indeed (I cannot too often reiterate) has mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional
No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or as aiming mainly
('Just now I am finishing a big volume of about 900 pages comprehending all my stuff, poems and prose
Now he writes, "Have not been out-doors for over six months—hardly out of my room, but get along better
Or in "A Carol closing Sixty-nine':— "Of me myself—the jocund heart yet beating in my breast, The body
old, poor, and paralysed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me, The burning fires down in my
And in another passage (in the introductory essay) he says—'No one will get at my verses who insists
"Unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own
Let us quote the two poems entitled "Halcyon Days" and "Queries to my Seventieth Year."
Two prose pieces which appeared there under the titles "My Book and I" and "How I made a Book" are now
He said once to my father, 'They talk of the devil—I tell thee, Walter, there is no worse devil than
import of his first book ("without yielding an inch, the working-man and working-woman were to be in my