Meaning of Whitmanite | Babel Free

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An admirer or imitator of American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).

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“Did I not dispute a whole afternoon with another young man about the necessity for character, only to learn⟳ at the end⟳ of it that he didn't know⟳ what character was. He supposed it was 'something narrow and priggish—like⟳ what deacons used to be' And he, mind⟳ you, was in his twenties, and claimed, ore rotundo, to be a Whitmanite, a Shavian, and a socialist.”

“[Walt] Whitman gave [Edward] Carpenter a letter of introduction to his fan, Dr Richard Maurice Bucke and he set⟳ off, across the vast Lake Erie, to meet⟳ the Canadian Whitmanite, who was in charge of an insane asylum in the town of London.”

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