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The Poetry of Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman was an immense talent. And a prodigious one at that. Associated with the Free Verse movement his poems are usually on the longer side. Iconic works such as Leaves of Grass divided opinion on their publication. Some argued it was obscene others such as Ralph Waldo Emerson rallied to his cause. Whitman was born on May 31st 1819 on Long Island. By the age of 11 his schooling was finished and he embarked on a series of jobs that eventually led to various newspaper editorships. He began to write poetry in the 1840s and in 1855 published his first of many versions of Leaves of Grass. Thereafter he wrote solidly until his death on March 26, 1892. He is buried in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman wrote that "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."


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Publisher: Deadtree Publishing Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781783941063
  • File size: 37179 KB
  • Release date: December 19, 2013
  • Duration: 01:17:27

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  • ISBN: 9781783941063
  • File size: 37184 KB
  • Release date: December 19, 2013
  • Duration: 01:17:27
  • Number of parts: 1

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Fiction Poetry

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English

Walt Whitman was an immense talent. And a prodigious one at that. Associated with the Free Verse movement his poems are usually on the longer side. Iconic works such as Leaves of Grass divided opinion on their publication. Some argued it was obscene others such as Ralph Waldo Emerson rallied to his cause. Whitman was born on May 31st 1819 on Long Island. By the age of 11 his schooling was finished and he embarked on a series of jobs that eventually led to various newspaper editorships. He began to write poetry in the 1840s and in 1855 published his first of many versions of Leaves of Grass. Thereafter he wrote solidly until his death on March 26, 1892. He is buried in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman wrote that "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."


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