Author: (Whitman, Walt). Bucke, Richard Maurice.
Title: Was Walt Whitman Mad?. [Read for Dr. Bucke, Who Was Not Present, by Thomas B. Harned, Afternoon Session, Annual Meeting, May 31st. ]
Description: Philadelphia, PA: Walt Whitman Fellowship. 1895. 1895. Philadelphia, PA: Walt Whitman Fellowship. 1895. 1895. Very good. - Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in cream-colored printed self-wrappers. The edges of the cover page are very slightly darkened. [8] pages, numbered 23 through 30. A very good unopened copy. First edition. "Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers: Second Year: 9. Philadelphia, November, 1895". An adventurer in his youth, Richard Maurice Bucke (1837-1902) was a Canadian psychiatrist. He was the head of Ontario's provincial Asylum for the Insane in London, Ontario and was a friend of significant men of letters throughout the U.S. Canada and Great Britain. He wrote numerous professional articles and was the author of "Man's Moral Nature", "Walt Whitman" (a biography of the poet), and "Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind". Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; LITERARY CRITICISM; RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE; THOMAS B. HARNED; WAS WALT WHITMAN MAD?; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; AMERICAN LITERATURE; AMERICAN POET; WALT WHITMAN FELLOWSHIP PAPERS: SECOND YEAR: 9; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; PSYCOLOGY; PS


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