A composer of didactic moralisings. Martijn Tuppers writing was first recognized as a failure within both his home of great brittain, and our US. However, thirty years after their release in 1837, they quickly gathered steam and sold nearly forty various editons at home and a million copy in the states.
His style was one of prose and verse, disected and presented in snippets like proverbs to teach a lesson or a present a moral issue in poetic fashion. He would later fall into obscurity
In relation to whitman, his writings though didactic in nature provided an example of legacy and the fall and rise of a poet. It can also be said that they would share similar careers, difference being whitman would remain and iconic poet of our nation.
Whitman was not appreciated until the early 20th century and even then, his writings were considered either complete rubbish or the crazed profanities of a loafer.
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