He is America's
greatest poet of democracy. His work is characterized by altruism, by
all-embracing sympathy, by emphasis on the social side of democracy, and by
love of nature and the sea.
REFERENCES
Stanton's _A Manual of American Literature._
Alden's _Magazine Writing and the New Literature._
Perry's _A Study of Prose Fiction_, Chap. IX., _Realism_.
Howells's _Criticism and Fiction_.
Burt and Howells's _The Howells Story Book_. (Contains biographical
matter.)
Henry James's _The Art of Fiction_.
Phelps's _William Dean Howells_, in _Essays on Modern Novelists_.
Brownell's _Henry James_, in _American Prose Masters_.
Canby's _The Short Story in English_. (James.)
Whitman's _Leaves of Grass_ (1897), 446 pp. (Contains all of his poems, the
publication of which was authorized by himself.)
Triggs's _Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman_. (The best
for general readers.)
Perry's _Walt Whitman, his Life, and Work_. (Excellent.)
G. R. Carpenter's _Walt Whitman_.
Platt's _Walt Whitman_. (_Beacon Biographies_)
Noyes's _An Approach to Walt Whitman_. (Excellent.)
Bucke's _Walt Whitman_. (A biography by one of his executors.
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