Word: psychohistorians
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Kaplan does not recede from the question of Whitman's sexuality. With the tools of the psychohistorian, the author recognizes the significance of Whitman's search for his sexual identity. Still, he doesn't overemphasize this side of the poet. While Kaplan unobtrusively reminds us that the "I" of Leaves of Grass is almost as often as woman as a man, on the other hand, he later analyzes Whitman's masterpiece in more universal terms. Kaplan sees the centerpiece of Whitman's life as both a "Whitman at his best, and when he is at his awful worst--windy, repetitious...