Walt Whitman's pose
By: Esther Shephard
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Charles E. Feinberg Collection (Thomas J. Bata Library)
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co.
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
Notes: "The source of Leaves of grass is, in spite of all of Walt Whitman's protestations to the contrary, in the fragment of a book, the epilogue of a French novel.  The novel is The Countess of Rudolstadt, by George Sand."--p. 140.

Book three, "The pattern", is a reprint of "The Countess of Rudolstadt;  by George Sand. [Sequel to 'Consuelo'.] ... vol. II. Translated by Francis G. Shaw.  Boston W.D. Ticknor and company, 1847" p. 256-302.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-420) and index.

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