A.K. Frailey’s Reviews > Leaves of Grass > Status Update

Whitman is a brilliant writer with an incredible ability to convey the sights, sounds, and sensations of all that he experiences. But he also comes across as a huge egoist who thinks that simply because he can imagine being other people that he really "knows" what it is to be them. Hard as he might try, I find it distasteful that he he thinks he knows what it is to be a slave...or a woman... Big overreach, me thinks.