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Emerson in the printed letter sent to us—"I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion
No illusion truly is Walt Whitman, the new American prodigy, who, as he is himself candid enough to intimate
On the other hand, according to an American review that flatters Walt Whitman, this kosmos is "a compound
maddened by this course of reading, and fancying himself not only an Emerson but a Carlyle and an American
Does he mention the American country, he feels bound thereupon to draw up a list of barns, waggons, wilds
does not prevail throughout the volume, for we learn on p. 29, that our poet is "Walt Whitman, an American
That he was an American, we knew before, for, aside from America, there is no quarter of the universe
he was one of the roughs was also tolerably plain; but that he was a kosmos, is a piece of news we were
Leaves of Grass (1856) From the American Phrenological Journal. AN ENGLISH AND AN AMERICAN POET.
Thus what very properly fits a subject of the British crown may fit very ill an American freeman.
Sure as the heavens envelop the earth, if the Americans want a race of bards worthy of 1855, and of the
Poetry, to Tennyson and his British and American eleves, is a gentleman of the first degree, boating,
Do you think city and country are to fall before the vehement egotism of your recitative of yourself?
the name of this erratic and newest wonder; but at page 29 we find that he is — Walt Whitman, an American
The words "an American" are a surplusage, "one of the roughs" too painfully apparent; but what is intended
unless it means a man who thinks that the fine essence of poetry consists in writing a book which an American
The chance of this might be formidable were it not ridiculous.
The American critics are, in the main, pleased with this man because he is self-reliant, and because
, had fulfilled their tasks and gone to other spheres; and all that remained, with few exceptions, were
They stand, as it were, on clear mountains of intellectual elevation, and with keenest perception discern
He wears his strange garb, cut and made by himself, as gracefully as a South American cavalier his poncho
A portion of that thought, which broods over the American nation, is here seized and bodied forth by
Here our latter-day poets are apt to whine over the times, as if heaven were perpetually betraying the
the most amazing, one of the most startling, one of the most perplexing creations of the modern American
indelibly fix it and publish it, not for a model but an illustration, for the present and future of American
letters and American young men, for the south the same as the north, and for the Pacific and Mississippi
Of pure American breed, large and lusty—age thirty-six years, (1855,)—never once using medicine—never
We were attracted by the very singular title of the work, to seek the work itself, and what we thought
Criterion says: "It is impossible to imagine how any man's fancy could have conceived it, unless he were
WE have before us one of the most extraordinary specimens of Yankee intelligence and American eccentricity