ABSTRACT
Unsigned review, Boston Intelligencer (3 May 1856). Printed in an Appendix, titled ‘The Opinions, 1855—6,’ to the second edition of Leaves of Grass.
The suggestion that Whitmans effrontery is worthy of ‘the lash” may be an indication that the reviewer had just read the preceding review, newly arrived from London, in which it had been proposed to put the author under ‘the public executioner’s whip’.
