{"id":46538,"date":"2019-04-03T18:47:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=46538"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:34:18","slug":"but-would-dracula-have-read-leaves-of-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/but-would-dracula-have-read-leaves-of-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"But Would Dracula Have Read Leaves of Grass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m generally not a fan of abscribing modern sensibilities to people who lived hundreds of years ago, but the possibilities of this mashup are too intriguing. Literary scholars believe a series of letters from <em>Dracula<\/em> author Bram Stoker to famed queer poet Walt Whitman reveal the Irish author had a bit of a crush on old Walt.<\/p>\n<p>Stoker married late in life and his marriage is believed to have been all-but sexless. However, his letters to Whitman reveal a great passion beneath Stoker&#8217;s conservative surface. &#8220;I think that at first a man would be ashamed, for a man cannot in a moment break the habit of comparative reticence that has become second nature to him; but I know I would not long be ashamed to be natural before you. You are a true man, and I would like to be one myself, and so I would be towards you as a brother and as a pupil to his master.&#8221; Stoker also praises Whitman&#8217;s &#8220;candid words&#8221; and lauds the poet for being free, while acknowledging that he can only read Whitman&#8217;s poems when locked alone in his room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hornet.com\/stories\/letter-to-walt-whitman-bram-stoker\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/PublicDomainPictures-14\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=164210\">PublicDomainPictures<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=164210\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m generally not a fan of abscribing modern sensibilities to people who lived hundreds of years ago, but the possibilities of this mashup are too intriguing. Literary scholars believe a series of letters from Dracula author Bram Stoker to famed queer poet Walt Whitman reveal the Irish author had a bit of a crush on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[413],"class_list":["post-46538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-queer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46566,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46538\/revisions\/46566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}