As I mentioned, I've already finished the Librivox recording of Leave of Grass, and now I'm reading the Deathbed Edition. You know what? I've discovered that I absolutely love Walt Whitman! Unlike so many more modern poets, who seem to view all of life with jaded eyes, Whitman is a realist. He paints wonderful verbal pictures of the good and the bad, all the while keeping alive a child's wonder at just being alive.
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