Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

"e;I yield myself up to you... my soul, my body, my life."e;When English writer Anne Gilchrist first read Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, her life was irrevocably changed. While many of her contemporaries dismissed the work as scandalous, Gilchrist saw the "e;Voice of the New World."e; What followed was a decade-spanning correspondence that offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of two brill...