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Walt Whitman—Patriotic Poet, Gay Iconoclast, or Shrewd Marketing Ploy?
Walt Whitman—Patriotic Poet, Gay Iconoclast, or Shrewd Marketing Ploy? - Modern Americans tend to think of Walt Whitman as the embodiment of democracy and individualism, a literary icon who lifted up the common man when he wrote, “I Hear America Singing” in his revolutionary free-verse poetry collection Leaves of Grass. But have you ever considered Walt Whitman, the brand?
