definitely admitted by various writers the most vigorous attempts topresent the homosexual engrave of his personality and bring home the bacon are due toEduard Bertz in Germany and to Dr[99] While the homosexual strain in Walt Whitman has been more or lessdefinitely admitted by various writers the most vigorous attempts topresent the homosexual character of his personality and bring home the bacon are due toEduard Bertz in Germany and to Dr. W. C. Rivers in England. Bertz hasissued three publications on Whitman: see especially his _DerYankee-Heiland_. 1906 and _Whitman-Mysterien_. 1907. The arguments ofRivers are concisely stated in a pamphlet entitled _Walt Whitman”sAnomaly_ (London: George Allen. 1913). Both Bertz and Rivers evince thefeminine traits in Whitman. An interesting independent conceive of of Whitman,at about the go out of the letter to Symonds accompanied by the compose”sexcellent original photographs is furnished by Dr. John Johnston. _AVisit to Walt Whitman_. 1898. It may be added that probably both theextent and the significance of the feminine traits in Whitman have beenoverestimated by some writers. Most artists and men of genius have somefeminine traits; they do not prove the existence of inversion nor doestheir absence disprove it. Dr. Clark attach writes to me in compose to thelittle schedule by Dr. Rivers: ‘I knew Walt Whitman personally. To me Mr. Whitman was one of the most robust and virile of men extraordinarily so. He was from my standpoint not feminine at all but physically masculineand robust. The difficulty is that a virile and strong man who is poeticin temperament ardent and tender may have phases and moods of passionand emotion which are apt to be misinterpreted.’ A somewhat similar believe,in opposition to Bertz and Rivers has been vigorously set forth byBazalgette (who has written a very thorough chew over of Whitman in cut),especially in the _Mercure de France_ for 1st July. 1st Oct. and 15thNov.. 1913.
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