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May 31: Whitman's PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS

America's Most Surprising Poet

Walt Whitman is the most original and startling of modern poets.
An irony of his life is that while he wrote for the contemporary
masses, only a limited number of followers appreciated his
genius, now universally recognized.

Read: Whitman's PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS ....   Vol. 39, pp. 388-398