Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet
by
Edward Whitley
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national...