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Walt Whitman
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Position
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Life
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Major Works
CONTENT
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Writing Features
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Position
Whitman • Position
A poet, an essayist ,
A journalist, a humanist
A giant of American letters
The father of free verse
One of the great innovators
in American literature
Whitman • Position
A part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism
He believed the American poets would create both new forms and new subject matter for poetry.
He announced and instructed a complete new age.
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Life
Whitman • Life Experience
Born on May 31, 1819, the second son of a house-builder.
Brought up in a working-class background on Long Island, New York.
Had five years of schooling and a good deal of "loafing" and reading.
Tried at a various of jobs and picked up a first-hand knowledge of life and people in the new world.
Worked as an office boy, a printer's apprentice, schoolmaster, printer, editor (of eight successive newspapers ), and journalist.
Whitman • Life Experience
1848, traveled to New Orleans and saw much of the Mississippi heartlands.
1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass came out (contained 12 poems).
During the Civil War, worked as a volunteer nurse, a "wound-dresser" in military hospitals.
Whitman • Life Experience
Released a second edition of the book in 1856, containing thirty-three poems, a letter from Emerson praising the first edition, and a long open letter by Whitman in response.
Continued to revise and expand his Leaves of Grass, and it went through 9 editions altogether.
1873, suffered a paralytic stroke.
died on March 26, 1892.
Whitman • Life Experience
After his death on March 26, 1892, Whitman was buried in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in Harleigh Cemetery.