“Some remarkable pen portraits, a little Gallic exuberance at times.”
+ Booklist 16:241 Ap ’20
“The Frenchman’s biography, sympathetic and glowingly eloquent as it is, can scarcely rank as an authoritative chronicle of the poet’s life. It possesses, however, multiple values of its own. The translator has taken the liberty of abridging M. Bazalgette’s book. This is regrettable and not easily justified.” J. Black
+ − Bookm 51:172 Ap ’20 1100w
Reviewed by James Oppenheim
+ − Dial 68:633 My ’20 1350w
“M. Bazalgette communicates an absolute sense of Whitman’s greatness. His book, like his theme, is ample and magnificent.” V. W. B.
+ Freeman 1:68 Mr 31 ’20 500w
Reviewed by B: de Casseres
+ N Y Times 25:239 My 9 ’20 1350w