Of more importance was a positive private response from Ralph Waldo Emerson. A second edition of Leaves appeared the next year, 1856, with 20 new poems, as well as Emerson's complimentary letter ...
Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing the literary lion's counsel, Whitman was adamant about keeping them. In later years, Whitman had ...
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