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...tall and 200 lbs., with "the wild-hawk look foreigners associated with Americans." He had great enthusiasm for Free Thinkers, the militant feminism of Margaret Fuller and George Sand, and such fads of his day as magnetism, sexology and phrenology. According to the bumps on his own head, Whitman had "a certain reckless swing of animal will, too unmindful, probably, of the conviction of others...
...Whitman was that. He knew the works of like-minded European writers, such as Carlyle and Goethe, but as a free man in the New World he did not acknowledge their influence. Rather, he saw himself as "a master after my own kind," a phrase that suggests messianic paganism that led the poet to view his work as a gospel of natural religion. "I must have the love of all men and all women," he wrote. "If there is one left in any country who has no faith in me, I will travel to that country and go to that...
Biographer Kaplan marks these travels not with a chronological posting of names and facts but with an imaginative and supplely written account that keeps bending back toward Leaves of Grass. This was the course of Whitman's own life. Youth and young manhood fed the first edition in 1855. The poem cycle became an organic reflection of its author as he journeyed through the. South, the Great Lakes, the Hudson Valley, to Washington, where he cared for the Civil War's wounded and dying, and finally to Camden, N.J., where he erected a roughhewn burial vault to house...
...wild, hellish' intensity. Tides of office seekers, profiteers and promoters, voyeurs, zealots, do-gooders, quacks, religious enthusiasts, prostitutes, grieving wives and relatives, swindlers, scamperers from ruined reputations and sinking ships drove up the price of food and drink ('38 cts for beer,' Whitman noted with disbelief) and made accommodations scarce. More than New Orleans in the victorious rattle and vivacity of 1848, more than Manhattan, and despite the frightful suffering in its hospitals, Washington seemed to Whitman a city of romance of things beginning. He said he had been drawn there by 'a profound conviction...