WWQR > Vol. 3 (1985) > No. 3
Abstract
Suggests that the likeliest source for Whitman's understanding of certain scientific phenomena-especially geological and astronomical-was popular journalist Robert Chamber's anonymously published Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), and compares relevant passages from Whitman and Chambers.
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Copyright © 1986 by The University of Iowa.
Recommended Citation
Green, Judith Kent. "A Note on Walt Whitman's Probable Reading of Robert Chambers." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 3 (12 1986), 23-28.
Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol3/iss3/4
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