Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Oscar and Walt Scratch Each Other's Backs; Pep Pills; Lisbon Flattened!
Oscar Wilde, on his tour of America in 1882, made not one but two pilgrimages to Camden, N.J., to see Walt Whitman—whose poetry he claimed to have known “from the cradle.” Afterward, the Good Grey Poet told a reporter that Wilde was “genuine, honest, and manly.” He added, for emphasis, “He is so frank, and Read More
