The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

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The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Anne Burrows Gilchrist, Walt Whitman

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1918

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Published many years after the deaths of both Whitman and Gilchrist, here is the full correspondence (at least from Gilchrist to Whitman) in form of essays and love letters.

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iter, chiefly of short prose tales and essays, which were accepted by the best New York magazines. His literary and journalistic work was not confined to the metropolis, but took him, for a few months in 1848, so far away from home as New Orleans. In 1851-54, besides writing for and editing newspapers, he was engaged in housebuilding, the trade of his father. Although this was, it is said, a profitable business, he gave it up to write poetry, and issued his first volume, "Leaves of Grass," in 1855. The book had been written with great pains, according to a preconceived plan of the author to be stated in the preface; and it was finally set up (by his own hands, for want of a publisher) only, as he tells us, after many "doings and undoings, leaving out the stock 'poetical' touches." Its publication was the occasion of probably the most voluminous controversy of American letters--mostly abuse, ridicule, and condemnation.

In 1862 Whitman's brother George, who had volunteered in the Union Army, was reported

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