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Carpenter, Frederic I. "Walt Whitman's "Eidolon"." College English. 1942. 534-545.

Type: Journal ; Genre: essay

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Whitman, Walt [pages: 534-545]

Carpenter discusses Whitman's real-life and literary personas and claims that Whitman was more of "a reformer than a bohemian." Carpenter also claims that Whitman's self-written biography for Burroughs' biography was an important fictional creation of Whitman's literary persona.