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Long article on Whitman's sexual preference for young boys.
http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/jeremy-lybarger-walt-whitmans-boys
Just by coincidence, I heard this guy being interviewed last night on NPR:
Last spring quarter, Northwestern University music student Timothy
McNair, a master's candidate in voice, had a problem with an assignment
in Professor Donald Nally's chorale class. Among the pieces the class
was required to learn and perform in concert was "Song of Democracy,"
which sets 19th-century poetry by Walt Whitman to mid-20th-century music
by Howard Hanson.
McNair, who's a bass, a scholarship student at Northwestern's Bienen
School of Music, and an African-American, isn't fond of Whitman. In the
course of researching him as an undergrad, he'd learned that the poet so
widely admired as the soul of democracy was also a racist.
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/northwestern-student-timothy-mcnair-whitman-racist/Content?oid=11206999
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