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"Poor old Walt Whitman keeps grinding out wierd poetry." --The Abilene Gazette (KS), March 29, 1888, pg. 1.


"The Hungarian government has banned the writings of the good gray poet, Walt Whitman, as stirring up the revolutionary spirit, but not even this prohibitions will induce the American public to read him." --Omaha Daily Bee (NE), May 15, 1922, pg. 4.


"The Herald editor describes Winsted as a place 'where the people make scythes, and don't admire Walt Whitman's poetry.'" Springfield Daily Republican (MA), January 23, 1869 pg. 8.


"Walt Whitman is a genius--if to be uncouth is a sign of it." --The Maysville Bulletin (KY), December 29, 1870, pg. 2.


"Walt Whitman says Anthony Comstock is a meddlesome fellow." --The Boston Sunday Globe (MA), January 6, 1884, pg. 12.


"'Nothing is ever really lost,' says Walt Whitman. We do not believe the poet ever dropped a nickel under the slat flooring of a horse car." --Morning Oregonian (OR), April 16, 1888, pg. 7.


"Swinburne is coming over to this country to see Walt Whitman. It will be a decidedly unique 'visiting,' we imagine Swinburne is troubled with morbid melancholy." --The Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer (OH), August 25, 1868, pg. 2.


"'Walt Whitman; Poet and Superman' will be the subject of the lecture by William Thurston Brown, principal of the Modern school, tonight at 8 o'clock at the rooms of the school." --Oregon Daily Journal (OR), November 17, 1911, pg. 9.


"Walt Whitman used to say that he found letters from God dropped everywhere along the street, and if some were passed ignorantly or unconsciously, others would promptly come." --Oregon Daily Journal (OR), May 7, 1927, pg. 4.


"Tomorrow will also be Walt Whitman Day, but the program of exercises to be held in honor of the poet has not been completed." --Oregon Daily Journal (OR), October 2, 1905, pg. 8.


"General Crook has no fear of death, but dreads an ode by Walt Whitman and a Herald monument fund" (Boston Post)." --Boston Evening Transcript (MA), July 29, 1876, pg. 4.


"The Chicago Times remarks that Walt. Whitman and Alf. Tennyson have corresponded for fifteen years and thinks that unless they can write better prose than poetry both are to be pitied." --Bridgeton Evening News (NJ), May 23, 1887, pg. 2.


"Walt Whitman is going to visit Lord Tennyson, being exceedingly anxious to see the man who can write worse poetry than himself. (Boston Post)." --Morning Oregonian (Portland, OR), July 9, 1885, pg. 4.


"Walt Whitman is the chief curiosity in the town of Camden [...]." --The Fenton Independent (MI), September 19, 1885, pg. 8.


"'Ah, I can only hobble along now,' said Walt Whitman, merrily, the other day. 'I am spry no longer, but my spirits are as high flown as ever.'" -- Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer (OH), January 10, 1879, pg. 2.


"It is not true that Walt Whitman is going back to the stage. It's doubtful if he wouldn't drive wild if he should." --Morning Oregonian (OR), July 31, 1873, pg. 2.


"I am sure that when Walt Whitman wrote that grass is the handkerchief of the Lord, he was thinking of bluegrass." --Franklin Favorite (KY), March 13, 1947, pg. 4.


"Nora Perry more than hints that some Bostonians who have lately been toadying Walt Whitman are among those who gave him the cold shoulder until he got indorsement from high quarters." --The Cleveland Leader (OH), May 5, 1881, pg. 4.


"Walt Whitman's birthplace, a brown shingle farmhouse on Long Island, is so inconspicuous that thousands of motorists who pass it daily, don't know the 'good gray poet,' ever lived there." --The Mayfield Messenger (KY), December 4, 1930, pg. 4.


"Walt Whitman is on his way home, with health greatly improved by his trip to the Plains." --The Evening Post (NY), November 22, 1879, pg. 2.


"We presume the prevalent opinion about Mr. Whitman's muse is that it is a spouter of gibberish. Poetry that...renders [one] liable to an attack of spinal meningitis, cannot be a good thing to cultivate." --Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer (OH), November 5, 1875, pg. 2.


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