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"Getting more savage, as I grow older": a Forgotten Glimpse of Walt Whitman.(Critical Essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 20040322
Author:Cody, David

Despite the fact that it was an important period for him, we know relatively little about Walt Whitman's life during the late 1850s, in part because very little of his correspondence from the period has survived. Of a decade's worth of writing, in fact, only seven letters to Whitman and six from him remain. Indeed, as David S. Reynolds has noted in his recent Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, "the only surviving Whitman letter of note between August 1852 and January 1860" is that written to his friend Sarah Tyndale (an ardent abolitionist from Germantown, Pennsylvania) ...

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