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Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler

Name: Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler
Author: Philip Leon
ISBN: 9781550222524

by Philip Leon, William Osler

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Overview

In 1919, Sir William Osler, MD, born in Ontario, was the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and the most famous medical doctor in the English-speaking world. In that year he wrote his Reminiscences about his personal and professional relationship 30 years earlier with the American poet Walt Whitman. Dr. Osler died before his manuscript could be published. Now, thanks to the exclusive permission granted by the Board of Curators of the Osler Library at McGill University, Philip W. Leon presents for the first time the complete text of Osler's Reminiscences, revealing the extent of the doctor's relationship with Walt Whitman.

About the Author, Philip Leon

Philip W. Leon, a professor of American literature at The Citadel, served at West Point as a senior advisor to the superintendent. He has published books on the Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Styron and on Mark Twain.