Walt Whitman
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ltred12
What made Whitman's work unpopular among many of his contemporaries?
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pboks
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Critical response focused on the heavy sexual themes in Leaves of Grass.
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Jblaze2
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Lots of people thought his book was vulgar; John Peter Lesley called it "trashy," in a letter to Emerson.
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