![]() ![]() Whitman declined both invitations, but asked Mrs. Childs, both publishers, were planning parties in Philadelphia for Wilde, and both invited Whitman to come from Camden, New Jersey, and attend them. ![]() It has all the pantheism of Goethe and Schiller.” 1 Two of his friends, J.M. There is something so Greek and sane about his poetry, it is so universal, so comprehensive. “Perhaps he is not widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead. Wilde actually valued Poe, “this marvellous lord of rhythmic expression,” above the others, but Poe was dead. He replied without hesitation, “I think that Walt Whitman and Emerson have given the world more than anyone else.” Longfellow, admirable as he was, was too close to European sources to have much effect in Europe. When Oscar Wilde arrived at the Aldine Hotel in Philadelphia on January 16, 1882, during his American lecture tour, he was asked by a batch of reporters which American poet he most admired. ![]()
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