Sacred Panoramas: Walt Whitman and New York City Parks

Examines Whitman\u27s journalism, focusing on his stories and editorials like A Lazy Day that present the author in a slacker pose ; argues that while Whitman\u27s agitations for public space change over time, he ultimately champions the notion of allocating higher grounds for public use, allowing all city-dwellers the opportunity to experience the all-encompassing power of the panoramic