Walt Whitman's different lights.

History Today | April 1, 1994| | Copyright

In the long line of American radicals - celebrated in a book published this spring by Routledge - the figure of Wait Whitman stands tall as writer, poetic free spirit and a nineteenth-century prefigurer of the Beat generation. But as Robert Martin describes here in an extract from the book, the extent to which his philosophical and even sexual concerns challenged the temper of their times, has not been properly appreciated.

`I am as radical now as ever', Wait Whitman (1819-92) told his friend, the author Horace Traubel at the end of his life. A few months later he ...

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