Walt Whitman's Champion

In 1865 Walt Whitman was dismissed from his clerkship in the Department of the Interior because Secretary James Harlan judged Leaves of Grass indecent, unfit to be read aloud "by the evening lamp." Most eloquent among Whitman's defenders was William Douglas O'Connor, whose pamphlet The Good Gray Poet, a panegyric to Whitman and an attack on literary censorship in general and Harlan in particular, was the first of his many heroic if sometimes excessive efforts on Whitman's behalf.

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
A Literary Biography
The Literary Career of William Douglas O'Connor, 1850-1862	p. 3
Whitman and O'Connor: A Decade of Companionship	p. 50
The Literary Battles of 1876 and 1882	p. 103
The Final Years	p. 139
The Whitman Essays
"The 'Ashton' Letter" (July 21, 1865)	p. 149
The Good Gray Poet (1866)	p. 157
"Walt Whitman: Is He Persecuted?" (1876)	p. 204
"Suppressing Walt Whitman" (1882)	p. 217
"Emerson and Whitman" (1882)	p. 226
"Mr. Comstock as Cato the Censor" (1882)	p. 233
Alterations Allowed by O'Connor in the 1883 Edition of The Good Gray Poet	p. 237
O'Connor and the Whitman Introduction to the Rossetti Edition	p. 239
Bibliography of William Douglas O'Connor	p. 243
Index	p. 247
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