Walt Whitman and the Opera

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"There is excitement even in Professor Faner's schol-arship: the excitement of young Whitman as he went from opera to opera and from concert to concert, as he began to understandthe full beauty, first of the human voice and, later,of the orchestra, and theexcitement of observing how all this comes back into his poetry,as subject-matter, as words written with the capabilities of the voice always in mind, as construction. There is, too, much information on other things than Whitman's art in Walt Whitman and Opera, so that it is a source-book for the history of music in America during the middle years of the nineteenth century." -Times Literary Supplement