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Amusing and informative for readers of all ages, this compilation of tennis lore and legend was written by an undefeated Davis Cup champion. Blending fact with humor and philosophy, it recounts the origins of the game, uses of the terms and equipment, scoring methods, and other elements, and features 29 antique illustrations.
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In 1865 Walt Whitman was dismissed from his clerkship in the Department of the Interior because Secretary James Harlan judged Leaves of Grass indecent, unfit to be read aloud "by the evening lamp." Most eloquent among Whitman's defenders was William Douglas O'Connor, whose pamphlet The Good Gray Poet, a panegyric to Whitman and an attack on literary censorship in general and Harlan in particular, was the first of his many heroic if sometimes excessive efforts on Whitman's behalf.
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William Douglas O'Connor authored the famous biographical fiction novel "the good gray Poet" on the usa of the united states. The book, marketed as a literary biography, gives readers with an in-intensity examination of Whitman's mind-boggling career as a poet and public parent. O'Connor's biography correctly navigates Whitman's family circle and modern lives, imparting slight on his early development, his style, and the social and cultural impact of his revolutionary poetry. O'Connor offers a superb portrait of Whitman, portraying each his accomplishments and his troubles in same degree. The writing's need for "the good grey Poet" references to Whitman's super tendencies as a poet who treat...
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