Parts of Chapter 8 appeared in different form in Telling Lives: The Biographer’s Art, edited by Marc Pachter, published by New Republic Books in association with the National Portrait Gallery.
Copyright © 1979 by the Smithsonian Institution.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1980 by Simon and Schuster, Inc.
WALT WHITMAN. Copyright © 1980 by Justin Kaplan. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Perennial Classics edition published 2003. Perennial Classics are published by Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kaplan, Justin.
Walt Whitman: a life / Justin Kaplan—1st Perennial Classics ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1980.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-06-053511-3
EPub Edition November 2013 ISBN 9780062339782
1. Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892. 2. Poets, American—19th century—Biography. I. Title.
PS323I.K3 2003
811’.3—dc21
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