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May
1865. Whitman’s friend
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William
Douglas O’Connor
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secures
him a job at the
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Attorney
General’s office, a
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post
he holds until he leaves
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after
he suffers a stroke in 1873.
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O’Connor
publishes The Good
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Gray
Poet: A Vindication
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(1866),
the beginning of a shift
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in
Whitman’s public persona
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and
popularity.
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