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October 19th, 2009 by fabfab
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While reading chapter 5 of Justin Kaplan’s Walt Whitman: A life (1980)
I read about Walt whitman’s claims of “dashing the novel off in three days”
of it.” (pg105) mention” George Whitman recalled that Walt never took any pride in his book. “Quite the contrary. He rather disliked or laughed at the
The book he is talking about here is Frank Evans or the inebriate, Walt Whitman was said to not have put time and effort into this book, he once told his friend Horace trauble that he wrote the novel under the influence of alcohol, drunk off of whiskey and gin. Even so the novel still became one of his best selling novels of all time.
why was whitman discouraged from putting more effort into the novel?. maybe he was scared of the reaction by the public…
after the release of the novel, whitman seemed more into the book, recommending it to readers.
maybe he did not predict the book to be so popular.
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