LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Influences on Whitman

To the Editor:

In citing Ralph Waldo Emerson as a source of Walt Whitman's ideas, Michael Robertson's excellent essay extolling "the Good Gray Poet" as a prophet does not reach back far enough ("Reading Whitman Religiously," The Chronicle Review, April 11). As I argue in a volume I edited, William Cullen Bryant: An American Voice (Antoca Press, 2006), the...

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