>A long-lost book-length guide to “manly health” by Walt Whitman, in which the great American poet tackles everything from virility to “care of the feet” and the attainment of a “nobler physique”, has been rediscovered by a scholar, more than 150 years after it was first published under a pen-name.
Whitman - the first merging of /fit/ and /lit/?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/30/walt-whitman-revealed-as-author-of-manly-health-guide
Anyone else here read some of Whitman's pre-Walt stories?
bumping because this should be stickied tbqh
>>7982096
Sad thing is /lit/ hates Whitman.
>>7982117
>/lit/ hates Whitman
Are you new or just baiting? He's regarded as one of the best, as he should be, chap.
>>7981428
>Whitman - the first merging of /fit/ and /lit/?
What about the Greeks?
>>7982136
Buggery is not usually considered a form of exercise.
>>7982134
Never said he wasn't the best, it's just if you're not posting about Yeats, Pound or Milton you don't get the time of day here.
>>7981428
Very good advice. What I found most fascinating, however, was that some of the problems of his time are the same as those we face today, as if they are new. For example, the promiscuous behavior of the youth.
Some of the the more interesting pieces of advice were as follows:
>shaving is a practice which should be abolished, especially in northern climes
>take cold showers
>eat mostly meat
>>7982148
I meant to say that he's regarded as one of the best by /lit/. He's mentioned all the time, even more so than Yeats and Eliot, I'd say, but not as much as Milton, that is true.
Shakespeare, Eliot, Crane, Frost, Milton, Whitman -- I'd say those are the favourites on /lit/, in no particular order.
