“Tedious and helpless prose” is how, in 1881, a writer for The Atlanticdescribed “Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman’s first volume of poetry. It was a view shared by other contemporary critics. One called the book “intensely vulgar, nay, absolutely beastly,” before bluntly refusing to tell readers where it might be bought. Whitman did not idly nurse his wounds. Instead, he anonymously wrote numerous flattering appraisals of his work, to even the balance.
Musk deltog vid högerextrem sammankomst – krävde nyval i Storbritannien
Elon Musk har krävt att det brittiska parlamentet ska upplösas och att en ny regering tillsätts. Uttalandet gjordes under ett massmöte i London, organiserat av den högerextreme aktivisten Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, mer känd som Tommy Robinson. Musk deltog via videolänk och…
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