Comments on: Walt Whitman & Levi’s Jeans http://www.teleread.com/robert-nagle/walt-whitman-levi-jeans/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:36:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Betsy Garret http://www.teleread.com/robert-nagle/walt-whitman-levi-jeans/comment-page-1/#comment-1151416 Betsy Garret Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:47:29 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/22/walt-whitman-levi-jeans/#comment-1151416 Discovery of this recording sparked a great debate; scholars still do not know if this recording is the real voice of Walt Whitman. A NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/16/books/poem-is-whitman-s-is-the-voice.html A downloadable MP3: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/index.html There is no mention by Whitman himself, or by any of his friends or contemporary biographers including Horace Traubel and Bliss Perry, that such a recording was ever made. Only Thomas Edison, the inventor of this high-quality recording process, wrote that he would like to record Whitman's voice. Discovery of this recording sparked a great debate; scholars still do not know if this recording is the real voice of Walt Whitman.

A NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/16/books/poem-is-whitman-s-is-the-voice.html

A downloadable MP3:
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/index.html

There is no mention by Whitman himself, or by any of his friends or contemporary biographers including Horace Traubel and Bliss Perry, that such a recording was ever made. Only Thomas Edison, the inventor of this high-quality recording process, wrote that he would like to record Whitman’s voice.

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