Walt Whitman and the fake butterfly

“Yes – that was an actual moth,” Walt Whitman told his sidekick and chronicler, Horace Traubel; “the picture is substantially literal: we were good friends: I had quite the in-and-out of taming, or fraternizing with, some of the insects, animals.” This was his myth he told of himself.  He confessed to historian William Roscoe Thayer, […]

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