Manly Health and Training: With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions - New American Edition
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Walt Whitman, an icon of the original American Transcendentalists, wrote Manly Health and Training, a decidedly non-transcendentalist manifesto in 1858. As was his style he wrote it using one of his common pen names, Mose Velsor. Published in serial form by the newspaper, The New York Atlas, in weekly installments, just recently discovered on microfilm.
By the politically correct standards of today, it is unlikely that this would have seen the light of day. In many respects, Manly Health very American guide to many aspects of life. Whitman touches on many things, food, alcohol, sex, boxing, bathing, footwear and just about anything else he felt he wanted to throw into the mix.
Manly Health is an important window into the mid-1800s in America and an invaluable addition to the body of Walt Whitman's work.
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