“Mr. Whitman,” [Henry James] harrumphed, “is very fond of blowing his own trumpet.”
The Boston Globe celebrates Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, which turned 150 this month, and discusses how when it was first published, not everyone thought it was worth celebrating.
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