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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Song of myself : with a complete commentary / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Prose works 1892 / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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The correspondence / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Leaves of grass : a textual variorum of the printed poems / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Daybooks and notebooks / 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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The sea is a continual miracle : sea poems and other writings / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Life and adventures of Jack Engle: an auto-biography : a story of New York at the present time in which the reader will find some familiar characters / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Franklin Evans, or The inebriate : a tale of the times / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Prose works 1892. by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Song of myself, from Leaves of grass. by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Oh captain! My captain!. by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Reconciliation. by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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The wound-dresser. by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Shut not your doors. by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Song of myself, from Leaves of grass. by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Song of myself, from Leaves of grass. by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Calamus: a series of letters written during the years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a young friend (Peter Doyle). by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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