| 1883 | Walt Whitman. The Canadian doctor and devoted friend of the poet (he purportedly committed all of Leaves of Grass to memory) writes the first Whitman biography, with the poet's collaboration. Bucke would follow it with a critical study, Walt Whitman, Man and Poet (1897), and a work on the poet's mysticism, Cosmic Consciousness (1901). |
The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S. Burt. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
