Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today

Project Gutenberg's Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today, by Henry Eduard Legler This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today Author: Henry Eduard Legler Release Date: January 20, 2010 [EBook #31027] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WALT WHITMAN YESTERDAY AND TODAY *** Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) WALT WHITMAN Yesterday & Today BY HENRY EDUARD LEGLER CHICAGO BROTHERS OF THE BOOK 1916 Copyright 1916 by the Brothers of the Book The edition of this book consists of six hundred copies on this Fabriano hand- made paper, and the type distributed. This copy is Number 2 To Dr. Max Henius CONSISTENT HATER OF SHAMS ARDENT LOVER OF ALL OUTDOORS AND GENEROUS GIVER OF SELF IN GENUINE FELLOWSHIP THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED Walt Whitman: Yesterday & Today [9]I N a day about mid-year in 1855, the conventional literary world wasOstartled into indecorous behavior by the unannounced appearance of a thin quarto sheaf of poems, in form and in tone unlike anything of precedent issue.