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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

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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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Leaves of Grass

4.12 avg rating — 98,399 ratings — published 1855 — 4704 editions
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Song of Myself

4.16 avg rating — 14,056 ratings — published 1856 — 190 editions
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Poetry and Prose

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4.30 avg rating — 7,408 ratings — published 1982 — 9 editions
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The Complete Poems

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4.26 avg rating — 4,322 ratings — published 1902 — 24 editions
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4.12 avg rating — 3,961 ratings — published 1855 — 204 editions
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Selected Poems

4.08 avg rating — 2,344 ratings — published 1892 — 87 editions
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Poems by Walt Whitman

4.14 avg rating — 1,812 ratings — published 1892 — 484 editions
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Leaves of Grass: First and ...

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4.27 avg rating — 1,398 ratings — published 1855 — 4 editions
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The Portable Walt Whitman

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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

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