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An American Primer

By Walt Whitman, Horace Traubel (Introduction)
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By Walt Whitman, Horace Traubel (Introduction)
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An excerpt from the Foreword:

"The American Primer" is a challenge rather than a finished fight. We find Whitman on this occasion rather laying his plans than undertaking to perfect them. It would be unfair to take such a mass of more or less disjointed notes and pass them under severe review. Whitman never intended them for publication. He should not be criticised, as he has been by certain American editors, for an act for which he is in no way responsible. The Primer is not a dogma. It is ...

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