Walt Whitman and James Harlan
1903; University of Iowa; Volume: 6; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17077/0003-4827.2942
ISSN2473-9006
Tópico(s)Poetry Analysis and Criticism
ResumoWheu James Harlau was appoiuted Secretary of the Iuterior iu 1865, Walt Whitman held a clerkship iu that Departmeut.This was hefore the "good gray poet" had come iuto auy cousiderable fame.It was at a time, too, wheu mauy people-perhaps uiuety-uiue out of every huudreddeemed certaiu of his poems immoral and some of them iudeceut.Mr. Harlan's attention was called to the matter, the result of which was the removal of Whitman from his clerkship.At the time, however, this eveut attracted little attention; so little, in fact, that at this day very few people who have come down from that generatiou will remember it at all.Really, it trauspired as quietly as would the removal, for cause, of a $1,600 clerk by a cabinet officer today.Comparatively few people at that time eutertaiued any admiration for the writings of Walt Whitman.Mr. Harlau, however mistakemly, shared the popular estimate of the man aud his works.Eveu E. C. Stedmau, the poet, spoke of Whitmau's writiugs as "too anatomical and malod.orous."Later on, however,
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