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In Gary Schmidgall's illuminating collection, we see more clearly than ever before Horace Traubel's vital role in shaping Whitman's reputation. As we read these selections, we witness Whitman move from the cultural periphery to the center, becoming a vital resource to modernists and serving as a touchstone for working-class and radical political activists. It was in the Conservator that many of the issues that continue to influence our interpretation of the poet were first framed. Schmidgall's perceptive introduction and careful selection of materials will enrich Whitman studies for years to come. ---Kenneth M. Price, coeditor, Walt Whitman Hpertext Archive

""In his previous work Gary Schmidgall has already played a key role in the scholarly assessment of Traubel's importance as a promoter of Whitman's fame, an oral historian, a literary executor, and, in all, a subtle interpreter of the poet's life and works. With this new selection from the Conservator, we gain further insights into Traubel as a literary journalist, social critic, and pioneer in sexual liberation. The introduction and editing are done with the scholarly care, engaging style, and personal touch we have come to expect from Schmidgall. Whitman scholarship is deeply enriched by this project.""---M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Texas A&M University ""In Gary Schmidgall's illuminating collection, we see more clearly than ever before Horace Traubel's vital role in shaping Whitman's reputation. As we read these selections, we witness Whitman move from the cultural periphery to the center, becoming a vital resource to modernists and serving as a touchstone for working-class and radical political activists. It was in the Conservator that many of the issues that continue to influence our interpretation of the poet were first framed. Schmidgall's perceptive introduction and careful selection of materials will enrich Whitman studies for years to come.""---Kenneth M. Price, coeditor, Walt Whitman Hpertext Archive

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Gary Schmidgall is a professor of English at Hunter College, the City University of New York, and the editor of Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892 (IOWA 2001). His other Whitman books are Walt Whitman: A Gay Life and Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892. He has also published books on Shakespeare and on the relation between literature and opera as well as a biography of Oscar Wilde.

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