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something of this experience, he wrote to Ralph Waldo Emerson, "I desire and intend to write a little book
And yet, Thoreau continued, "There are two or three pieces in the book which are disagreeable, to say
response from Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, who dismissed the poet's Leaves as a "very bad book
He is a poet, and I believe has written some very queer books about 'Free Love,' etc."
George Whitman had lived through many more battles and even survived imprisonment in the "Prison-Pens
Because his purpose in this book was to allow readers to study previously unpublished Whitman manuscript
annual, was, after all, a highly specialized scholarly journal, and was a technical university press book
This paragraph from the dust jacket embodies Martin's aspirations for the book: seeks to be an intervention
another source, such as Roy Harvey Pearce's facsimile edition of the 1860 (Ithaca, N.Y: Great Seal Books