Yazar: Horace Traubel

Horace Traubel (1858–1919) is best remembered for his extraordinary friendship with the poet Walt Whitman. Self-described as Whitman”s “spirit child, ” Traubel visited the poet almost daily from the mid-1880s until Whitman”s death in 1892. After Whitman”s death, Traubel founded, edited, and published The Conservator, a journal dedicated to keeping Whitman”s works alive. He is also the author of Chants Communal (1904) and other books.