Gay Wilson Allen Libri

Relates the life of an eighteenth-century writer and farmer who was forced to flee during the Revolution when accused of monarchist sympathies

"Though this illustrated book is intended primarily for the enjoyment of the non-specialist, I have tried to include something for anyone who is interested in Whitman. Even the scholar may find some of the pictures enlightening. I have given a rather full chronology, an almost complete checklist of the poet's publications, and selected biographical and critical titles."-from the preface