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Walt Whitman - Wikipedia Walter Whitman Jr ( ˈhwɪtmən ; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature
Whitman College At Whitman, you can publish in student newspapers and magazines, connect with visiting writers, throw down in the slam poetry club or write for Whitman’s One Act Play Festival
Walt Whitman | Biography, Poems, Leaves of Grass, Facts - Britannica Walt Whitman was an American poet, journalist and essayist whose verse collection Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, is a landmark in the history of American literature His aim was to transcend traditional epics and to eschew normal aesthetic form
Walt Whitman | The Poetry Foundation Walt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship
Biography - Whitman Archive Walt Whitman, arguably America's most influential and innovative poet, was born into a working class family in West Hills on Long Island, on May 31, 1819, just thirty years after George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the newly formed United States
Walt Whitman: Voice of American Poetry - Poem Analysis Walt Whitman, born in 1819, is known as the father of free verse poetry His deeply emotional, spiritual, and nature-based poems appeal to poetry loves around the world Throughout his work, he explores themes of life, the self, sexuality, nature, and spirituality
Walt Whitman Today, Walt Whitman, along with Emily Dickinson, is considered to be the two most influential and iconic American poets of the 19th century
Walt Whitman - Library of America “Whitman is a kind of litmus paper, perhaps a seismograph Reading him, we become aware of an awful, lost innocence, and are not certain whether the innocence was real or in Whitman’s imagination
Walt Whitman - U. S. National Park Service A 19th-century poet, essayist and journalist, Walt Whitman stands as one of the most influential poets in American literature, and one of the first to gain international recognition