“As a biography, it will easily take its place as our most exhaustive and authoritative record of Whitman’s career.”
+ + Acad. 69: 1285. D. 9, ’05. 1520w.
Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ Atlan. 98: 849. D. ’06. 1280w.
“Both in biographical detail and in critical comment the book is an excellent piece of work, perhaps the fullest and best study of the poet’s life and writings that has yet appeared.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – Dial. 40: 145. Mr. 1, ’06. 850w.
“A book of some interest and value, which yet has a few of the faults common to most biographies. In the first place, it is too long.”
+ – Lond. Times. 4: 401. N. 24, ’05. 2880w. + – Nation. 81: 469. D. 7, ’05. 840w.
“The poet’s work is, indeed, vindicated simply and naturally by Mr. Binns, with no violence of argument, and it is a pleasure to acknowledge the fine quality of spirit which he displays.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.