Walter Whitman, Acting Librarian
By Jeffrey Croteau
The investigation that follows has its roots in a simple question that has yet to be adequately addressed: did the fifteen-year-old Walt Whitman serve as “acting librarian” for the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library in January of 1835?
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Whitman on Broadway – The Poet of the Present Contemplates the Past
By Roberta Munoz
When Walt Whitman writes about the “great thoroughfare” of Broadway in Manhattan the energy almost breaks the page. It was, and still is, a place where … million-footed Manhattan unpent descends to her pavements…entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest[
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