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Like today’s selfie-takers, Walt Whitman used photography to curate his image – but ended up more lost than found

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par Trevin Corsiglia, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature and Thought, Washington University in St. Louis

When I read and study Walt Whitman’s poetry, I often imagine what he would’ve done if he had a smartphone and an Instagram account.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, the poet collected an “abundance of photographs” of himself, as Whitman scholar Ed Folsom points out. And like many people today who snap and post thousands of selfies, Whitman, who lived during the…

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