Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Whitman” in chapter 2.14 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2:
...rogress, as is also that criticism which considers the two methods of approach to be necessarily exclusive.
Still a third class of readers, uninterested in poets or prophets, as such, have gone to Whitman for the refreshing presence of a man and a writer who was entirely himself and who loved nature and his fellow men.
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