Walt Whitman

This 1883 biography was written by one of Whitman's literary executors. Author Richard Maurice Bucke became a close friend of Whitman after the two met in Camden in 1877. Bucke once stated that he was "lifted to and set upon a higher plane of existence" after having met Whitman and read his Leaves of Grass. The second part of this biography features a complete analysis of this groundbreaking collection of verses.