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For several years just before and just after his 1860 edition of  Leaves of Grass  appeared, Walt Whitman regularly frequented Pfaff’s beer cellar in downtown Manhattan. The basement bar was the very center of mid-nineteenth-century American bohemian activity and was heavily patronized by writers, artists, musicians, actors, intellectuals, and radicals such as free-love advocate Henry Clapp, Jr., and Broadway  succès de scandale  Adah Isaacs Menken. Numerous creative and political ventures emerged from this environment, and at least two bohemian literary weeklies,  The New-York Saturday Press  and  Vanity Fair , shared origins around the tables at Pfaff’s. In this milieu, Whitman found sympathetic supporters of his poetic vision, professional connections, rivals, romantic partners, and close friends, and left a lasting impression on poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman, an erstwhile bohemian who later in the century emerged as a tastemaker of American poetry. Yet for many years, the bohemians associated with Pfaff’s have served merely as minor background characters in Whitman scholarship.  Whitman among the Bohemians  corrects that by exploring in depth the connections Whitman m

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Author

Levin, Joanna; Whitley, Edward Keyes

Publisher

University of Iowa Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609382728

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History