Posted on 02/21/2017 5:40:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
Zachary Turpin was propped up in bed with his laptop in May, his wife and newborn son sleeping beside him, when he made a discovery that stands to rock the literary world.
There on his screen, he saw a small ad in an 1852 newspaper. The ad promised "A Rich Revelation:" A six-installment piece of fiction called "Life and Adventures of Jack Engle" was coming soon to the Sunday Dispatch, a three-penny weekly published in Manhattan.
The Houston Chronicle reports the short novel, like the newspaper that published it, was all but lost to the ages. But the author, Turpin believed, was Walt Whitman, one of America's best-known and most beloved poets.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcdfw.com ...
I did not enjoy reading Whitman’s works in high school.
Now, Robert Service was a much better reading.
As near as I can tell "inclusiveness" is code language used by the left to legitimize excluding those who have the mistaken moral orientation that they believe folks out to work for a living, in other words contribute through labor or other deeds to the well-being [especially material] of the society in which they live [food, shelter, health, parenting, educating, etc.]
You have magnificently coalesced something which has been percolating in my gray matter for decades but have never been able to put a finger on it. That makes perfect sense. Thank you!
I voluntarily took an F because I refused the assigned rubbish of The Scarlet Letter. That was horrible crap to be teaching to high school kids.
Here’s the ad in question. Top of the page, 4th column, right under the date.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1852-03-13/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1851&index=0&rows=20&words=ENGLE+JACK&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=New+York&date2=1853&proxtext=Jack+Engle&y=19&x=7&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
You were offended by adultery bashing?
Yes, well, the cant from the left, has started to bother me horribly in recent months if not years. How is it that a party that keeps emphasizing inclusiveness makes me feel more and more excluded with each passing day, marginalizing not just me but anyone else I know who is competent and productive, while “including” those who are leeches on society or aid, abet and encourage such leeches.
Dear lefty,
It wasn’t so horrible, when it was required reading in 1968.
He has his doctoral wrapped up. just write up the discoveries.
In Whitman’s case, isn’t *inclusive* code for gay? It’s admittedly been decades upon decades since I encountered his work, but that is what I’ve always presumed.
I admire Walt Whitman’s writing. I carried the Dover addition of “Civil War Poetry and Prose” around for months, reading it in every spare moment, including to Cub Scouts who fell behind during day camp hikes. “If you don’t keep up, we’ll be stuck here in the woods while I read poetry!”
I look forward to Dover’s bringing out these newly discovered works.
It’s typically taught as adultery glorifying.
“He is, along with Emily Dickinson, our major 19th-century American poet — and arguably, one of our first modern poets,” Enniss said.
GARBAGE.
Edgar Allen Poe is by far the most significant US poet.
I totally agree. He was a master of poetry and stories that could make you cry or raise the hair on the back of your neck.
Who knows the truth but that story has come down from people I know absolutely to have lived in his neighborhood during his life.
Well, this guy is a Whitman scholar so what do you expect him to say?
Curious juxtaposition.
I’ve had a Whitman and a Service poem on my FR homepage for years :-)
Believable, given his later works and the mores of the times.
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