Rendezvous: Thoreau & Whitman

The literary provocateurs sniffed at each other like nervous beasts while they argued heatedly about the common man. When Henry David Thoreau met Walt Whitman in 1856, America’s most brilliant and shockingly erotic poet was living with his mother. That fact didn’t faze Thoreau, perhaps because the author of Walden—a book about the joys of …

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