Democratic Vistas

First published in 1871, “Democratic Vistas” is an early classic work of comparative politics and letters by American author Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892). Whitman was an American essayist, poet, and journalist who was pivotal to the transition from transcendentalism to realism. His work was notably divisive and claimed by many to be obscene when first published, but he is now considered to be one of the most influential people in the American poetic canon and the “father of free verse”. Conte...