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. (Volume 39, Harvard Classics)
Walt Whitman born May 31, 1819.
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The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XX), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Plutarch
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Cæsar), by Plutarch
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas Malory
The Holy Grail (Book 17, Ch. 10-14), by Sir Thomas Malory
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi or The Betrothed (Ch. XX), by Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory Note: George Berkeley
The Second Dialogue, by George Berkeley
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compensation, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introductory Note: Beaumont and Fletcher
Philaster (Act I), by Beaumont and Fletcher
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A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding, by Jonathan Swift
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote (Vol. I, Part I, Ch. XXXIII), by Miguel de Cervantes
Introductory Note: Francis Bacon
Of Judicature, by Francis Bacon
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