Manly Health and Training

A truly significant discovery, Walt Whitman’s  Manly Health and Training  is an entertaining health manifesto that sheds new light on one of America’s major nineteenth-century authors.  In the fall of 1858, a thirteen-part essay series appeared in the  New York Atlas , under the title  Manly Health and Training.  This nearly 47,000-word journalistic effort, written by Walt Whitman under his pen name “Mose Velsor,” was lost for more than 150 years, buried in jus