Room 315 at 100
Comment about the New York Public Library on its 100th anniversary. "In "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days" Walt Whitman continued in prose the rolling…
"It seems remarkable that there is no mention of a place that would have appealed to him beyond all others: the most democratic room in New York—Room 315, the Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library. It is easy to imagine Whitman sitting there—just come in out of the cold, his beard still misted with snow."