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“Walt Whitman remains a fine riposte to all the ‘best writer under 40′ lists”
The Guardian reminds us that not everyone is Jonathan Safran Foer:
The mystery of Walt Whitman, explored in the latest New York Review of Books, goes deeper still. Until Leaves of Grass (1855), Whitman was heroically unpromising – a carpenter, a schoolteacher, a printer and journalist, and the author of a “temperance” novel. In the words of one critic, until well into his 30s, “Whitman was a non-poet in every way, with no mark of special talent or temperament”.
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 by Harriet Staff.