Walt Whitman, n.All

Walt Whitman is a writer who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Walt Whitman is as unacquainted with art as a hog with mathematics.

Walt Whitman is a man who is not only eager to talk about himself, but reluctant to have the conversation stray from the subject for too long.

Walt Whitman is half song thrush, half alligator.

Walt Whitman is like a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.

Walt Whitman is guilty of misleadingly likening style to a curtain, thus confusing it with decoration or with something that could be pulled back to reveal the ‘matter’.

Walt Whitman is a post-mortem poet, with the private soul leaking out of him all the time. All his privacy leaking out in a sort of dribble, oozing into the universe.