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Whitman's sailors and other friends.(Essay)(Walt Whitman)
From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20040301
Author:Gould, Mitchell Santine
The following is offered as part of an effort to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass on July 4, 2005. Additional material can be found on a website maintained by the author (www.LeavesofGrass.org) for this purpose.
WALT WHITMAN was famously large, claiming to "contain multitudes." Right from his startling debut on July Fourth, 1855, he crowed that facets of his own identity were mirrored in "A farmer, mechanic, or artist ... a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker,/A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest."
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