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| Walt Whitman at 35, from an 1854 steel engraving |
There on his screen, he saw a small ad in an 1852 newspaper. The ad promised "A Rich Revelation": A six-installment piece of fiction called "Life and Adventures of Jack Engle" was coming soon to the Sunday Dispatch, a three-penny weekly published in Manhattan...
The novel is also being published, in book form, by the University of Iowa Press...
"Jack Engle," the story of an orphan's adventures, can be classified as sentimentalism, Turpin said. The serial appeared "unsigned, practically unheralded and riddled with typographical errors" — and then, he said, "it sank like a stone." The story received little response. It was never reprinted or reviewed. And Whitman never mentioned it again...
The discovery of new work by Whitman is a major find, said Stephen Enniss, director of the Harry Ransom Center, a massive arts and humanities archive at the University of Texas at Austin...
Unknown Walt Whitman Novel Discovered by University of Houston Grad Student https://t.co/b5YdZjbHuG— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) February 20, 2017
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