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Walt Whitman


Born
in West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York, The United States
May 31, 1819

Died
March 26, 1892

Genre

Influences


Walter Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.

Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War in addition to publishing his poetry. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842).

After working as clerk, teacher, journalist and laborer, Whitman wrote his masterpiece, Leaves of Grass, pioneering free verse poetry in a humanistic celebration of humanity, in 1855. Emerson, who
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Quotes by Walt Whitman  (?)
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“Resist much, obey little.”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
Walt Whitman

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Polls

January 2018 Old School Poll

 
  57 votes, 16.4%

 
  57 votes, 16.4%

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 1849, 624 pages
 
  46 votes, 13.2%

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 1855, 624 pages
 
  32 votes, 9.2%

Silas Marner by George Eliot 1861, 262 pages
 
  27 votes, 7.8%

 
  27 votes, 7.8%

 
  27 votes, 7.8%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages
 
  22 votes, 6.3%

Germinal by Émile Zola 1885, 592 pages
 
  19 votes, 5.5%

 
  13 votes, 3.7%

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 1834, 370 pages
 
  12 votes, 3.4%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov 1859, 586 pages
 
  9 votes, 2.6%

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