cyclopedia di letteratura inglese di Chambers : una storia critica e biografica di autori nella lingua inglese dai primi tempi fino ai giorni nostri, con esemplari della loro scrittura. D disgusto. In una seconda edizione (1856) il numero di poesie è stato aumentato a trentadue, mentre la prefazione originale, un pezzo molto nobile di scrittura, è stato sospeso. Una terza edizione (i860) ha mantenuto intactThe Children of Adam, dopo un lungo colloquio con Emerson, che ha insistito sull'impolicy, l'utterinadvisability di quella parte del libro, che ha lasciato So4 AValter Whitman Whitman con un chiaro e unniistaken condannato

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Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . nd disgust. In a second edition (1856) thenumber of poems was increased to thirty-two, andthe original preface, a very noble piece of writing, was withheld. A third edition (i860) kept intactthe Children of Adam, after a long talk withEmerson, who insisted on the impolicy, the utterinadvisability of that part of the book, which left So4 AValter Whitman Whitman with a clear and unniistaken convictionto disobey all and go his own way. This editionhad some sale. In 1862 Whitman went to Wash-ington, and for two years did patient and efficientserice as a volunteer nurse in the soldiershospitals. Of these years there is ample andaffecting record in his Drum-Taps and in TheWound-Dresser (a series of letters to his mother)and the prose Specimen Days. Appointed to aclerkship in the national Department of theInterior, he was dismissed by the Secretary as*• the author of an indecent book. From this inci-dent came W. D. OConnors splendid vindication, * The Good Gray Poet, and Whitman got another. WALTER WHITMAN.From a Photograph by Notinan. government appointment, which he held till he wasstricken with paralysis in 1873. Apparently the•emotional strain of the hospital service had sappedthe foundations of his health. The remainder ofhis life was spent in Camden, New Jersey, anunlovely extension of Philadelphia, where he hadnoble visitors and faithful friends, with some whoseflatteries would have sickened him had his appetitefor such meat been less robust. New editions ofhis poems appeared from time to time, seed forthe collectors harvest further on, a significant onein 1876, so broad the stamp on it of his individu-ality ; and one in 1882, nearly complete, whichhis Boston publishers abandoned when threatenedwith prosecution by the Massachusetts Attorney-General. They begged Whitman t

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