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Bibliographic Information
Leland, Henry P. "Walt Whitman [From the Philadelphia City Item]." New-York Saturday Press. 16 Jun. 1860: 1.
Type: newspaper ; Genre: review
Abstract
Leland exclaims that Whitman's unique voice and viewpoint on the individual and country is an act of creative destruction. It will change American poetry, leaving behind the banal imitations of classical poetry lesser men aspired to write.
