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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Meeting Walt Whitman
An interesting moment that hasn't been talked about much, anyone with information or resources on the meeting between Poe and Walt Whitman is kindly encouraged to post!
According to Whitman biographer Justin Kaplan, Poe published two articles by Whitman in the Broadway Journal; the titles aren't name in this source. Whitman wrote, "Poe was very cordial in a quiet way... appear'd well in person, dress, &c. I have a distinct and pleasing remembrance of his looks, voice, manner, and matter: very kindly and human, but subdued, perhaps a little jaded" (quoted from Stoval's "Prose Works of Walt Whitman," according to endnotes). Another Whitman biographer, Jerome Loving, says their meeting occurred at the BJ office in New York. I'm not sure if people really buy that Whitman met Poe or if it's generally considered apocryphal.
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According to Whitman biographer Justin Kaplan, Poe published two articles by Whitman in the Broadway Journal; the titles aren't name in this source. Whitman wrote, "Poe was very cordial in a quiet way... appear'd well in person, dress, &c. I have a distinct and pleasing remembrance of his looks, voice, manner, and matter: very kindly and human, but subdued, perhaps a little jaded" (quoted from Stoval's "Prose Works of Walt Whitman," according to endnotes). Another Whitman biographer, Jerome Loving, says their meeting occurred at the BJ office in New York. I'm not sure if people really buy that Whitman met Poe or if it's generally considered apocryphal.
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