Walt Whitman
Born
in West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York, The United States
May 31, 1819
Died
March 26, 1892
Genre
Influences
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Leaves of Grass
941 editions
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1855
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Song of Myself
194 editions
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published
1856
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Poetry and Prose
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9 editions
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published
1982
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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
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259 editions
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1855
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Selected Poems
87 editions
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published
1892
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Poems by Walt Whitman
223 editions
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published
1892
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Leaves of Grass: First and "Death-Bed" Editions
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Leaves of Grass and Other Writings
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5 editions
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published
1855
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Alone on the Beach at Night
5 editions
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published
1892
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The Portable Walt Whitman
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23 editions
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published
1945
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“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
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“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Leaves of Grass
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Leaves of Grass
Polls
January 2018 Old School Poll
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 1889, 480 pages
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 1597, 283 pages
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 1849, 624 pages
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 1855, 624 pages
Silas Marner by George Eliot 1861, 262 pages
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 1895, 170 pages
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774, 176 pages
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages
Germinal by Émile Zola 1885, 592 pages
Elizabeth and Her German Garden byElizabeth von Arnim 1898, 207 pages
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 1834, 370 pages
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov 1859, 586 pages
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