This is the seventh volume of the daily record, over the last four years of Walt Whitman s life, of his conversations with his young friend and literary executor Horace Traubel.
Traubel managed Whitman s literary and personal affairs and assisted him in the preparation for publication of the final (Deathbed) edition of "Leaves of Grass. "Each evening he wrote down a brief description of how Whitman appeared to him that day and then recorded all the snatches of conversation that he remembered.
The sheer consistency of Traubel s effort is perhaps without precedent in all of literature....
This is the seventh volume of the daily record, over the last four years of Walt Whitman s life, of his conversations with his young friend and lit...
In March, 1888, Horace Traubel, Walt Whitman's loyal, hardworking assistant, began to record his almost daily conversations with the good, gray poet. Here are those exchanges, condensed into one book and conveying the self-revealing, humorous, nostalgic and often curmudgeonly words of the master.
In March, 1888, Horace Traubel, Walt Whitman's loyal, hardworking assistant, began to record his almost daily conversations with the good, gray poet. ...
