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A LIFE OF WALT WHITMAN


    BY THE SAME WRITER

    MOODS AND OUTDOOR VERSES

                ("RICHARD ASKHAM")

    FOR THE FELLOWSHIP


[Illustration: _Walt Whitman at thirty-five_]


A LIFE OF WALT WHITMAN

by

HENRY BRYAN BINNS

With Thirty-three Illustrations






METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1905




  TO

  MY MOTHER

  AND

  HER MOTHER

  THE REPUBLIC




PREFACE


To the reader, and especially to the critical reader, it would seem
but courteous to give at the beginning of my book some indication
of its purpose. It makes no attempt to fill the place either of a
critical study or a definitive biography. Though Whitman died thirteen
years ago, the time has not yet come for a final and complete life
to be written; and when the hour shall arrive