TY - BOOK ID - 73646778 TI - Conserving Walt Whitman's fame AU - Schmidgall, Gary AU - Traubel, Horace PY - 2006 SN - 087745972X 1609380029 1587296756 9781587296758 9781609380021 9780877459729 PB - Iowa City University of Iowa Press DB - UniCat KW - Poets [American ] KW - 19th century KW - Biography KW - Poets, American KW - Whitman, Walt, KW - Ouïtman, Ouōlt, KW - Uitman, Uolʹt, KW - Uitmen, Uot, KW - Uitmen, Uolt, KW - Viṭman̲, Vālṭ, KW - Vālṭ Viṭman̲, KW - Witʻŭmŏn, KW - Ṿiṭman, Ṿolṭ, KW - Vālṭviṭman̲, KW - Waltvitmen, KW - Whitman, Walter, KW - Huiteman, KW - Veeitman, KW - Уитмен, Уолт, KW - ויטמן, וולט, KW - װיטמאן, װאלט, KW - ويتمن، والت، KW - Vitmen, Volt, KW - Uitman, Uollt, KW - Huiteman, Huate, KW - 華特·惠特曼, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73646778 AB - It is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame. Much of the critical commentary in the first decade after his burial in Camden was as negative as that in Boston's Christian Register, which spoke of Whitman as someone who "succeeded in writing a mass of trash without form, rhythm, or vitality."That the balance finally tipped toward admiration, culminating in Whitman's acceptance into the literary canon, was due substantially to the unflagging ER -