| The Good Gray Poet |
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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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