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EncyclopediaWhitman, WaltWhitman, Walt (Walter Whitman), 1819–92, American poet, b. West Hills, N.Y. Considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, Walt Whitman celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man. His Leaves of Grass, unconventional in both content and technique, is probably the most influential volume of poems in the history of American literature. Sections in this article: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on Walt Whitman from Infoplease:
- Walt Whitman: Bibliography - Bibliography See T. L. Brasher, ed., Early Poems and Fiction (1963) and H. W. Blodgett and S. ...
- Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass - Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There
- Walt Whitman: To a Common Prostitute - Be composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters ref
- Walt Whitman: Inscriptions - One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
- Walt Whitman: A Broadway Pageant - Over the Western sea hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impa
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