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Milton Meltzer Walt Whitman: A Biography.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

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From: The Horn Book Magazine
Date: 20020901
Author:Burns, Mary M.

160 pp. Twenty-first Century/Millbrook 3/02 Library edition ISBN 0-7613-2272-8 31.40 (Middle School, High School)

As indicated in a short foreword, Meltzer's presentation of Whitman's life is interpretive rather than simply a portrait of the man in the many stages of his life, which, on the whole, was quite ordinary. Yes, the facts are there: his early life as the son of farmers, his many jobs (one could hardly call them careers) as teacher, nurse, carpenter, printer, journalist. The only consistent occupation he had was that of poet, and in that role he became a major figure ...

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