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Preface to Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • May 31, 2022 • 35m

Walt Whitman is the most original and startling of modern poets. An irony of his life is that while he wrote for the contemporary masses, only a limited number of followers appreciated his genius, now universally recognized. (Volume 39, Harvard Classics)

Walt Whitman born May 31, 1819.

 

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