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 | | Rhys marketed the book as the "Whitman" installment in the Canterbury Poets series, what Rhys called the "Everyman Library" because of the series' goal of making the works of writers like Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge, Longfellow, Poe, and Whittier available to all. |
 | | Rhys had hailed Whitman as a fellow democratic socialist in a letter concerning the proposed 1886 edition, saying, "You know what a fervid stir and impulse forward of Humanity there is today in certain quarters! |
 | | Rhys also includes as an epigraph the Richard Watson Gilder poem, "The True Poet," reproduced from the November 1881 Century Magazine (viii). |
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