A Day with Walt Whitman
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By May Byron
18 Feb, 2020
A fictional summer day (1877) in the life of Walt Whitman, written under the pseudonym "Maurice Clare" with poetry selections and color illustrations.
In this old farmhouse, in the New Jersey hamlet of White Horse, Walt Whitman had been long an in
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A fictional summer day (1877) in the life of Walt Whitman, written under the pseudonym "Maurice Clare" with poetry selections and color illustrations.
In this old farmhouse, in the New Jersey hamlet of White Horse, Walt Whitman had been long an inmate. He was recovering by almost imperceptible degrees from the breakdown induced by over-strain, mental and physical, which had culminated in intermittent paralytic seizures for the last eight years, and had left his robust physique a mere wreck of its former magnificence. Here, in the absolute peace and seclusion of the little wooden house, with its few fields and fruit-trees, he lived in lovable companionship with the farmer-folk, man, wife and sons: and here, the level, faintly undulated country, "neither attractive nor unattractive," supplied all the needs of his strenuous nature and healed him with its calm, curative influences. Less
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