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lines. The form was free, the
rhythm’s were loose, rhyme
had all but disappeared. The
combination of strong stress
and irregular beat suggested
the complicated sonority of the
King James version of the
Bible. The Biblical music was
echoed in Whitman’s cadences;
compensate for the lack of
rhyme. Whitman, like the He-
jrew psalmists, relied on repe
tition, parallelisms, balanced
metaphors, and heightened
smybolism."
Horace L. Traubel, who was
Walt Whitman's executor and
biographer was a most inter
esting personality. Born in
Camden, N. J.. 1858 (lie died in
Bon Echo, Ontario, in 1919), he
was the son of a German-Jew-
ish immigrant, Maurice Henry
Traubel, a printer, engraver,
writer and biographer. His
mother was a non-Jewess, and
Horace referred to himself as
a "half-breed."
The Traubel home in Cam
den, N. ,J.. became a haven for
Whitman when he settled
there, and a long and lasting
friendship began with Horace.
Horace Traubel wrote the
preface to Whitman's “An Am
erican Primer.’’
It is recorded that Whitman,
realizing that Horace Traubel
would write about him after
his death, asked him to tell
only the truth:
Whitman: "Only be afraid
not to tell the truth."
Traubel: "I promise not to
send you down in history
wearing another m a n ’ s
clothes.
Whitman: "That’s all I could
ask. Horace."
Traubel. who later authored
the biographical book "With
Walt Whitman in Camden,’’
also wrote the famous tribute
to "the good gray poet: “O my
dear Comrade.”
Traubel was a Marxian So
cialist who supported Eugene
V. Debs. He was intrigued by
the Bolshevist Revolution iii
1917. but emphatically empha
sized his preference for Amer
ican democracy. He was the
founder in Philadelphia, of the
political-literary monthly "The
Conservator” and edited it un
til his death in 1919. and he
also edited “The Artsman ”
1903-07.
It is not at all surprising that
a great poet should have at
tracted and befriended a great
biographer. Both traveled
democratic vistas together;
both echoed the inerasable po
etic \% ords of Whitman in
"Leaves of Grass:"
"Afoot and light-hearted I
take to the open road
Healthy, free, the world
before me,
The long brown path before
me leading wherever 1
choose.”
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