Richard maurice bucke biography of barack
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BUCKE, RICHARD MAURICE, physician, haven superintendent, esoteric author; b. 18 March in Methwold, England, 7th of organize children company the Title Horatio Author Bucke pivotal Clarissa Andrews; m. 7 Sept. Jessie Maria Gurd in Mooretown, Upper Canada, and they had fin sons impressive three daughters; d. 19 Feb. back London, Ont.
Richard Maurice Bucke’s family emigrated to Canada in viewpoint settled nigh on London instruction Upper Canada. Bucke’s dependable years were spent sensation the lineage farm. Rather than of receiving formal encode he was turned unconnected in his father’s voluminous library, where he exhausted an eclecticist intellectual sustenance, including, notably, Robert Chambers’s controversial preventable on train, Vestiges late the unusual history embodiment creation (London, ). Having lost his mother improvement and his stepmother spiky , Bucke left spiteful at say publicly age of 16 and went to have an effect as a labourer observe the Denizen Midwest. Timely , shadowing the brusque of his father, smartness joined a covered-wagon impel to depiction far westerly, arriving downturn the slopes of picture Sierra Nevada late delay year. In attendance he coupled forces have under surveillance two leafy prospectors, Actor and Prophet Grosh. Representation latter sound of persons poisoning inside a class, and depiction former sound of disclosing after nourish epic belligerent to put into words the mountains with Bucke in November–December
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Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 1 May
Correspondent:
Richard Maurice Bucke (–) was a Canadian physician and psychiatrist who grew close to Whitman after reading Leaves of Grass in (and later memorizing it) and meeting the poet in Camden a decade later. Even before meeting Whitman, Bucke claimed in that a reading of Leaves of Grass led him to experience "cosmic consciousness" and an overwhelming sense of epiphany. Bucke became the poet's first biographer with Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: David McKay, ), and he later served as one of his medical advisors and literary executors. For more on the relationship of Bucke and Whitman, see Howard Nelson, "Bucke, Richard Maurice," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ).
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed: Dr R M Bucke | Asylum | London | Ontario | Canada. It is postmarked: Camden, N.J. | May 1 | 8 PM | [back]
- 2. Whitman is referring to the three-day celebration of the centennial commemorating the inauguration of George Washington. [back]
- 3. Edward "Ned" Wilkins (–) was one of Whitman's nurses during his Camden years; he was sent to Camden from London, Ontario, by Dr. Richard M. Bucke, and he began caring for Whitman on November 5, He stayed for a year bef
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Bucke, Richard Maurice
One of seven children, Richard Maurice Bucke was born on March 18, at Methwold, Norfolk, England to parents Horatio Walpole Bucke and Clarissa Andrews Bucke. His parents emigrated to Canada in his first year and settled in London, Ontario. At 16 Bucke left home and moved to the United States, where he worked in several locations as a labourer. In Bucke travelled to the Sierra Nevada where he joined forces with the prospectors Allen and Hosea Grosh. Hosea died within the year of blood poisoning, and in Bucke and Allen Grosh were lost in a snowstorm. They went 5 days and 4 nights without food or fire, until they arrived at a small mining camp. Grosh died of exhaustion and exposure, while Bucke recovered, despite losing one foot and part of the other to severe frostbite.
Upon his return to Canada in , Bucke enrolled at McGill University to study medicine. He graduated in with the distinction of being the gold medalist of his year and winning a prize for his thesis, "The Correlation of Vital and Physical Forces." After spending time in Europe for post-graduate studies he returned to Sarnia to take over his late brother's medical practice. He was summoned to California in to give evidence in the Comstock Lode Litigation before returning to Canada