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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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Poetry

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, McDonald Clarke, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Carlyle ...more


Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described by some as obscene for its overt sensuality.
Whitman was born in Huntington on Long Island, and lived in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At the age of 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. He worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, was financed with hi ...more

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Leaves of Grass
4.12 avg rating — 104,091 ratings — published 1855 — 2358 editions
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Song of Myself
4.16 avg rating — 14,925 ratings — published 1856 — 182 editions
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Poetry and Prose
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The Complete Poems
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Selected Poems
4.08 avg rating — 2,417 ratings — published 1892 — 88 editions
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Poems by Walt Whitman
4.16 avg rating — 1,722 ratings — published 1892 — 160 editions
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Alone on the Beach at Night
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“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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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.”
― Walt Whitman
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“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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