I was looking for the next poetry collection to read - having read all the poems of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, and all the sonnets of Shakespeare. At the library I spotted a collection of the sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, so I took it out. I started reading it. I like sonnets, and she's a good poet, but I just could not get into it.
Sigh.
Then I remembered G. K. Chesterton liked the poetry of Walt Whitman. Hmm. I've read and taught some of his poems, but only a few of them. But he is certainly up there in the American poetic pantheon, and hence well worth reading. So I dug out my copy of Leaves of Grass. I'll give him a try.
Besides, I like his beard!
Pax et bonum
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