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A Note on Walt Whitman's Probable Reading of Robert Chambers

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Suggests that the likeliest source for Whitman's understanding of certain scientific phenomena-especially geological and astronomical-was popular journalist Robert Chamber's anonymously published Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), and compares relevant passages from Whitman and Chambers.

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How to Cite: Green, J. K. (1986) “A Note on Walt Whitman's Probable Reading of Robert Chambers”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 3(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1859