Excerpt from Walt Whitman: The Man and the Poet If we ask what are the leading ideas which are particularly characteristic of Whitman's poetry or philosophy, we shall find that his disciples are not altogether in agreement about them. How ever, I think we shall find in the following passage from Mr. Sloane Kennedy's Reminiscences of Walt Whitman, a sufficient indication of what are usually accounted to be his root ideas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.