Walt Whitman
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Whitman was born in Huntington on Long Island and lived in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At age 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 his own money and became well known. The work was an attempt to reach out to the common person with an American epic. Whitman continued expanding and revising ''Leaves of Grass'' until his death in 1892.
During the American Civil War, he went to Washington, D.C., and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded. His poetry often focused on both loss and healing. On the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, whom Whitman greatly admired, he authored two poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures on Lincoln. After suffering a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at age 72, his funeral was a public event.
Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Art historian Mary Berenson wrote, "You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without ''Leaves of Grass''... He has expressed that civilization, 'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him." Modernist poet Ezra Pound called Whitman "America's poet... He ''is'' America." According to the Poetry Foundation, he is "America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare." Provided by Wikipedia
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Democratic vistas : the original edition in facsimile / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Leaves of grass / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Leaves of grass, 1860 : the 150th anniversary facsimile edition / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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The correspondence / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Memoranda during the war / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Selected letters of Walt Whitman / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Walt Whitman's songs of male intimacy and love : "Live oak, with moss" and "Calamus" / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Walt Whitman's selected journalism / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Democratic vistas : and other papers / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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"The million dead, too, summ'd up" : Walt Whitman's Civil War writings / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Every hour, every atom : a collection of Walt Whitman's early notebooks and fragments / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Walt Whitman's selected journalism / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Americana : op. 89, for blandet kor / by Nørholm, Ib, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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O me! O life! : for mixed choir and string quintet, 2016 / by Dykstra, Lowell, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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War songs : for baritone and orchestra (2013) / by Danielpour, Richard, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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BBC Proms. by Dove, Jonathan, 1959-, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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I ___ the body electric : for a male singer and a male speaker playing a piano or another instrument / by Venables, Philip, 1979-, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Lilacs : (for tenor & piano) / by Higdon, Jennifer, 1962-, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Lilacs : (for mezzo & piano) / by Higdon, Jennifer, 1962-, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Lilac-time : composed for voice & pianoforte / by Scott, Cyril, 1879-1970, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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