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Emerson writes that he finds in his book "incomparable things, said incomparably well."
The book he pronounces "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed
In that state he would write a book exactly like Walt Whitman's "LEAVES OF GRASS."
Three-fourths of Walt Whitman's book is poetry as catalogues of auctioneers are poems.
A Catalogue of the Household Furniture with the select collection of scarce, curious, and valuable books
reserve and with perfect indifference as to their effect on the reader's mind; and not only is the book
this gross yet elevated, this superficial yet profound, this preposterous yet somehow fascinating book
As seems very proper in a book of transcendental poetry, the author withholds his name from the title-page
The man is the true impersonation of his book—rough, uncouth, vulgar.
cannot tell, unless it means a man who thinks that the fine essence of poetry consists in writing a book
We should have passed over this book, "LEAVES OF GRASS," with indignant contempt, had not some few Transatlantic
suppose that Walt Whitman has been learning to write, and that the compositor has got hold of his copy-book
We will neither weary nor insult our readers with more extracts from this notable book.
creations of the modern American mind; but he is no fool, though abundantly eccentric, nor is his book
again there is no patronymic, and we can only infer that this roystering blade is the author of the book
Such, as we conceive, is the key to this strange, grotesque, and bewildering book; yet we are far from
This book should find no place where humanity urges any claim to respect, and the author should be kicked
make his way into the confidence of his readers, and his poems in time will become a pregnant text-book
He makes no allusions to books or writers; their spirits do not seem to have touched him; he has not
We omit much even in this short extract, for the book abounds in passages that can not be quoted in drawing-rooms
inexpressible purposes of nature, and for this haughtiest of writers that has ever yet written and printed a book