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Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892.(Critical Essay)

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 20010701
Author:Davenport, Guy

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892, edited by Gary Schmidgall. University of Iowa Press, 2001. 312 pages. $49.95.

On Wednesday the twenty-eighth of March 1888, the twenty-nine-year-old Horace Traubel began taking down in shorthand what Walt Whitman had to say in the poet's upstairs bedroom on Mickle Street in Camden, New Jersey. "At Walt's this evening. Called my attention to an old letter in the Philadelphia Press describing a visit to Emerson with Louisa Alcott, and Emerson's senility." Whitman was sixty-nine, not yet ...

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