Lovering, a good congressman of Massachusetts-attempted to secure a battle your retirement to have Whitman, this new poet themselves refused to support so it efforts
Nonetheless, the mere rumor one Whitman was being noticed getting a retirement try adequate to induce Thomas Wentworth Higginson so you’re able to intensely oppose the latest suggestion on profiles off Harper’s Bazaar With Whitman are decreasingly mobile, Thomas Donaldson, good Philadelphia lawyer, designed an agenda in 1885 to discover the poet a horse and […]