In a Walt Whitman Novel, Lost for 165 Years, Clues to ‘Leaves of Grass’

Exciting! New Walt Whitman. Not a successful piece at the time, it is of course always a delight to find new work from a renowned master. “This is Whitman’s take on the city mystery novel, a popular genre of the day that pitted the ‘upper 10 thousand’ — what we would call the 1 percent — against the lower million,” said David S. Reynolds, a Whitman expert at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York." “It’s like seeing the workshop of a great writer,” said Ed Folsom, the editor of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. “We’re discovering the process of Whitman’s own discovery.”
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In a Walt Whitman Novel, Lost for 165 Years, Clues to ‘Leaves of Grass’
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A digital sleuth has discovered an anonymously published 1852 serial novel by the poet, which survived in only a single copy of an obscure newspaper.