Introductory note

WALT WHITMAN
"The Dresser" (1865)
"The Wound-Dresser" (1881-1882)

WILLIAM DOUGLASS O'CONNOR
The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication (1866)
"The Carpenter" (1868)

JOHN BURROUGHS
excerpt from Notes on Walt Whitman (1867)

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINISON
"Unmanly Manhood" (1882)
"Women and Men" (1887)
"Walt Whitman: His Death . . ." (1892)
excerpt from Cheerful Yesterdays (1898)

HENRY JAMES
excerpt from Notes of a Son and Brother (1914)

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