Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Autor(a) de Leaves of Grass
About the Author
Walt Whitman was born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a carpenter. He left school when he was 11 years old to take a variety of jobs. By the time he was 15, Whitman was living on his own in New York City, working as a printer and writing short pieces for newspapers. He mostrar mais spent a few years teaching, but most of his work was either in journalism or politics. Gradually, Whitman became a regular contributor to a variety of Democratic Party newspapers and reviews, and early in his career established a rather eccentric way of life, spending a great deal of time walking the streets, absorbing life and talking with laborers. Extremely fond of the opera, he used his press pass to spend many evenings in the theater. In 1846, Whitman became editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, a leading Democratic newspaper. Two years later, he was fired for opposing the expansion of slavery into the west. Whitman's career as a poet began in 1885, with the publication of the first edition of his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. The book was self-published (Whitman probably set some of the type himself), and despite his efforts to publicize it - including writing his own reviews - few people read it. One reader who did appreciate it was essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote a letter greeting Whitman at "the beginning of a great career." Whitman's poetry was unlike any verse that had ever been seen. Written without rhyme, in long, loose lines, filled with poetic lists and exclamations taken from Whitman's reading of the Bible, Homer, and Asian poets, these poems were totally unlike conventional poetry. Their subject matter, too, was unusual - the celebration of a free-spirited individualist whose love for all things and people seemed at times disturbingly sensual. In 1860, with the publication of the third edition on Leaves of Grass, Whitman alienated conventional thinkers and writers even more. When he went to Boston to meet Emerson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes, and poet James Russell Lowell, they all objected to the visit. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Whitman's attentions turned almost exclusively to that conflict. Some of the greatest poetry of his career, including Drum Taps (1865) and his magnificent elegy for President Abraham Lincoln, "When Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865), was written during this period. In 1862, his brother George was wounded in battle, and Whitman went to Washington to nurse him. He continued as a hospital volunteer throughout the war, nursing other wounded soldiers and acting as a benevolent father-figure and confidant. Parts of his memoir Specimen Days (1882) record this period. After the war, Whitman stayed on in Washington, working as a government clerk and continuing to write. In 1873 he suffered a stroke and retired to Camden, New Jersey, where he lived as an invalid for the rest of his life. Ironically, his reputation began to grow during this period, as the public became more receptive to his poetic and personal eccentricities. Whitman tried to capture the spirit of America in a new poetic form. His poetry is rough, colloquial, sweeping in its vistas - a poetic equivalent of the vast land and its varied peoples. Critic Louis Untermeyer has written, "In spite of Whitman's perplexing mannerisms, the poems justify their boundless contradictions. They shake themselves free from rant and bombastic audacities and rise into the clear air of major poetry. Such poetry is not large but self-assured; it knows, as Whitman asserted, the amplitude of time and laughs at dissolution. It contains continents; it unfolds the new heaven and new earth of the Western world." American poetry has never been the same since Whitman tore it away from its formal and thematic constraints, and he is considered by virtually all critics today to be one of the greatest poets the country has ever produced. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Walt Whitman
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography; A Story of New York at the Present Time in which the Reader Will… (1842) 73 cópias
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume II: Poems: 1860-1867 (1959) 71 cópias
Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers (1995) — Autor — 59 cópias
Leaves Of Grass - Selected And With An Introduction By Christopher Morley - Illustrations By Lewis C. Daniel (1939) 45 cópias
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America: A Library of… (2019) 40 cópias
Leaves of grass: Including Sands at seventy, first annex, Good-by my fancy, second annex, A backward glance o'er… (1907) 33 cópias
The Complete Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, Patriotic Poems, Complete Prose Works, The Wound Dresser,… (2014) 30 cópias
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy (2005) 25 cópias
Walt Whitman 20 cópias
Walt Whitman: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1934) 19 cópias
Leaves of grass including a fac-simile autobiography, variorum readings of the poems and a department of gathered… (1900) 16 cópias
The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion (1949) 13 cópias
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume I: Poems: 1855-1856 (1980) 12 cópias
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS Lewis Daniel Doubleday Doran 1940 in Slipcase (1940) — Autor — 11 cópias
To the Soul: Thomas Hampson Sings the Poetry of Walt Whitman [sound recording] (2006) — Autor — 9 cópias
Two prefaces 8 cópias
Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus" (Iowa Whitman Series) (2011) 8 cópias
Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume III: Poems: 1870-1891 (1980) 7 cópias
Walt Whitman Poetry Collection: Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and A Complete Biography of Walt Whitman (2020) 7 cópias
Leaves of Grass a selection of Poems — Autor — 6 cópias
Leaves of Grass - The Deathbed Edition Complete with 400 Poems (Reader's Library Classics) (2022) 5 cópias
Walt Whitman's Blue Book : The 1860-61 Leaves of grass containing his manuscript, additations, and revisions (2010) 5 cópias
Works of Walt Whitman. Including Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days, Drum Taps & more (mobi) (2008) 5 cópias
Digte 5 cópias
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 5 cópias
The Complete Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves Of Grass, Drum-Taps, The Patriotic Poems, The Wound Dresser and More (89… (2013) 4 cópias
Walt Whitman's Poems. Edited by Gay Wilson Allen and Charles T. Davis (Evergreen Books. no. 161.) (1955) 4 cópias
Greatest Works of Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Drum-Taps, Good-Bye My Fancy, Specimen Days, Collect, November Boughs,… (2012) 4 cópias
Slang in America 3 cópias
Manly Health and Training: With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions - New American Edition (2016) 3 cópias
La quercia 3 cópias
Walt Whitman's New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles (Library of Southern Civilization) (2022) 3 cópias
Canti d'addio 3 cópias
Leaves of Grass McKay, Phila ’91-2 3 cópias
Starting from Paumanok 3 cópias
Song of the Broad-Axe 3 cópias
Leaves of Grass McKay, Phila. ‘84 3 cópias
The Song of the Open Road 3 cópias
The Works of Walt Whitman in Two Volumes as Prepared By Him for the Deathbed Edition. Vol. 1: the Collected Poetry.… (1968) 3 cópias
Calamus : a series of letters written during the years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a young friend (Peter Doyle) (2015) 3 cópias
Ich rufe Erde und Meer an 2 cópias
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) (1965) 2 cópias
An English and an American poet 2 cópias
Folhas das folhas da relva 2 cópias
Pictures : a poem 2 cópias
The best of Whitman 2 cópias
Leaves of Grass, Comprising all the Poems ...following the Arrangement of the 1891 - 92 Edition. [Modern Library Giant… (1961) 2 cópias
Collection of American Poetry: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth… (2010) 2 cópias
Leaves of Grass (Selection) I 2 cópias
Calamus, letters to Peter Doyle 2 cópias
Selections from Whitman 2 cópias
Two Rivulets 2 cópias
Leaves of Grass Washington, D.C. ‘72 2 cópias
Leaves of Grass 2 cópias
Short Stories 2 cópias
Collected writings 2 cópias
The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up: Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings (Iowa Whitman Series) (2021) 2 cópias
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman. Includes; Inscriptions; Song of Myself; Children of Adam; Calamus; Song of Open Road;… (1942) 2 cópias
Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Early Notebooks and Fragments (2020) 2 cópias
Whitman, Walt LEAVES OF GRASS Franklin Library 1st Edition Illustrated Leather (1777) 1 exemplar(es)
Selections From Leaves Of Grass 1 exemplar(es)
Specimen Days and a collection 1 exemplar(es)
To the Soul: Thomas Hampson Sings the Poetry of Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of grass, from the text of the edition authorized and editorially supervised by his literary executors, Richard… 1 exemplar(es)
The Correspondence, Vol. I: 1842-1867 1 exemplar(es)
Song of the Exposition 1 exemplar(es)
Życie i przygody Jacka Engle'a 1 exemplar(es)
Two Rivulets, Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India [And As a Strong Bird On Pinions… (2012) 1 exemplar(es)
Poemas esenciales 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass - Grasbladen - vertaald door 26 dichter 1 exemplar(es)
Two Rivulets 1 exemplar(es)
Prefácios a Folhas de Erva 1 exemplar(es)
Poems of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1 exemplar(es)
Keys to Walt Whitman: Being a rearrangement of some of the great passages of Leaves of grass which provide a talisman… 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman Abroad 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman's The Leaves of Grass: A Critical Guide (Monarch Notes and Study Guides) 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass comprehensive readers edition 1 exemplar(es)
The Correspondence, Vol. IV: 1886-1889 1 exemplar(es)
Poems ... (Leaves of Grass.) Introduction by Carl Sandburg 1 exemplar(es)
American Critical Essays, XIX-XX Century (The World's Classics) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman, selections from his poetry and prose 1 exemplar(es)
Complete poems & prose of Walt Whitman, 1855-1888: Authenticated & personal book (handled by W.W.), portraits fr 1 exemplar(es)
Walden and Civil Disobedience, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, & Twice Told Tales by… 1 exemplar(es)
Prosaschriften 1 exemplar(es)
Memories of President Lincoln & Other Lyrics of the War 1 exemplar(es)
Besondere Tage (Die Andere Bibliothek, Band 472) 1 exemplar(es)
Poesía (Edición bilingüe) 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman's Blue Book 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Poetry And Collected Prose - Leaves Of Grass (1855 & 1891-92), Complete Prose Works (1892), Supplementary… 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass - Foglie d'erba 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass 1ST Edition- Comprehensive Reader's Edition (The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman) 1 exemplar(es)
Càlam / Calamus. Publicat en ocasió de la commemoració del centenari de la mort de Walt Whitman 30 de març - 2… 1 exemplar(es)
Death of Abraham Lincoln 1 exemplar(es)
Three Poems 1 exemplar(es)
Vidas ejemplares 1 exemplar(es)
Prose Works 1892 Volume 2 1 exemplar(es)
Collected Works of Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
FIJE BARI 1 exemplar(es)
SEÇME ŞİİRLER 1 exemplar(es)
An Exhibition of the Works of Walt Whitman Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Printing of his Leaves of… 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass Everyman's Library 1 exemplar(es)
Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III 1 exemplar(es)
Prose Works 1892 Volume 1 1 exemplar(es)
behoor je werkelijk tot de volledige mensen? 1 exemplar(es)
The Correspondence Volume 1 1842-1867 1 exemplar(es)
Whitman_Leaves_of_Grass.mobi 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS 1944 Illustrated Modern Library BOARDMAN ROBINSON (1944) 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings [LEAVES OF GRASS & OTHER WRITIN] [Paperback] (2002) 1 exemplar(es)
DEMOKRACJA I PERSONALIZM 1 exemplar(es)
Miracles (excerpt) 1 exemplar(es)
diVersi 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of grass (1855-71) : Democratic vistas 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) by Whitman, Walt (2002) Paperback 1 exemplar(es)
Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass Vol. LVIII-Number 1 1 exemplar(es)
"The Sleepers" 1 exemplar(es)
"A Woman Waits for Me" 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Works of Walt Whitman "American Poet, Essayist, and Journalist"! 9 Complete Works (Patriotic Poems, Democratic… (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
“Sparkles from the Whell” 1 exemplar(es)
“Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” 1 exemplar(es)
“Broadway Pageant” 1 exemplar(es)
“When Lilac Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” 1 exemplar(es)
“I Sing the Body Electric” 1 exemplar(es)
“Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier” 1 exemplar(es)
“Starting from Paumanok” 1 exemplar(es)
“I Hear America Singing” 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass C3 1 exemplar(es)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass A Century Exhibition from the Lion Whitman Collection and the Berg Collection of The New… 1 exemplar(es)
Ecrits de jeunesse (Un endroit où aller t. 265) 1 exemplar(es)
Manahatta 1 exemplar(es)
Rivelerò io cosa dire di me (Gli alianti) (Italian Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Obras Escogidas, Ensayo biografico critico version, notas y bibliografia de Concha Zardoya 1 exemplar(es)
Sangen om migselv 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS (I) & DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Everyman's Library 1930 [Hardcover] unknown 1 exemplar(es)
Democracy's Poet: Walt Whitman A Celebration 1 exemplar(es)
Hymn on the Death of Lincoln 1 exemplar(es)
American poetry 1 exemplar(es)
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass A Selection of the Poems Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Best Poems of Walt Whitman (Little Blue Book #73) 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass - The People's Library 1 exemplar(es)
"An Old Man's Thoughts Of School" 1 exemplar(es)
Poems by Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves Of Grass Walt Whitman Easton Press 1st Edition Full Leather 22k Gold Edge (1777) 1 exemplar(es)
Ruohonlehtiä 1 exemplar(es)
An Autograph letter from Walt Whitman to Bram Stoker 1 exemplar(es)
Whitman's Poems 1 exemplar(es)
Canti scelti 1 exemplar(es)
Sangen om meg selv : av "Leaves of grass" 1 exemplar(es)
Choix de poèmes 1 exemplar(es)
Canção da estrada larga 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman, ses meilleures pages 1 exemplar(es)
Fremtidens historie 1 exemplar(es)
Native Moments (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Years of the Modern (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Freedom and Domination 1 exemplar(es)
One's-Self I Sing (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
[A collection of Fragments of Walt Whitman's writings, all in his autograph, consisting of eighteen various pieces] 1 exemplar(es)
The Complete Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman Volume One 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems 1 exemplar(es)
Poets to Come (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Song of the Redwood Tree 1 exemplar(es)
collected prose 1 exemplar(es)
Foglie d'erba, poesie scelte e tradotte da Enzo Giachino 1 exemplar(es)
Lecture by Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln 1 exemplar(es)
After all, not to create only : recited by Walt Whitman on invitation of managers, American Institute, on opening their… 1 exemplar(es)
Eidolons 1 exemplar(es)
A collection of poems. 1 exemplar(es)
Foglie D'erba 1855 1 exemplar(es)
Gesang von der offenen Landstraße. Mit 6 ganzseitigen Original-Holzschnitten von William Tegtmeier. Druck in Schwarz… (1921) 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings 1 exemplar(es)
Criticism : an unpublished essay 1 exemplar(es)
Fuldkomne Dage 1 exemplar(es)
Domestic Vistas, and Other Papers 1 exemplar(es)
A Noiseless Patient Spider 1 exemplar(es)
Hojas de Hierba - Tomo I 1 exemplar(es)
Grashalme. Mit einem Essay v. Gustav Landauer 1 exemplar(es)
New York dissected : a sheaf of recently discovered newspaper articles by the author of Leaves of grass (1976) 1 exemplar(es)
Ich singe für dich, o Demokratie 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of grass : selected from the complete edition 1 exemplar(es)
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, and Other Poems 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitmans Werk in zwei Bänden 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass : including Sands at Seventy, Good-bye my Fancy, A Backward glance o'er travel'd roads, and portrait… 1 exemplar(es)
Voices and Visions-Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman (The Library of Great Poetry) 1 exemplar(es)
Excerpts from Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass, 1 exemplar(es)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 1 exemplar(es)
Selected Poems of Walt Whitman [Collector's Library] 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass Inclusive edition. From the text of the edition authorized and editorially supervised by his literary… (1926) 1 exemplar(es)
Selected poetry-list poems 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose - Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman, Conversaciones 1 exemplar(es)
Vida de Walt Whitman "El haragán magnífico" 1 exemplar(es)
Whitman Manuscripts at the University of Virginia (The Walt Whitman Archive, Vol 3, Pt. 1-2) (1993) 1 exemplar(es)
A Wartime Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of Grass Comprising All the Poems Written by Walt Whitman Following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'92 1 exemplar(es)
Lyrik und Prosa 1 exemplar(es)
A group of 6 titles: City of Orgies. --Facing West. --A Prairie Sunset. --To Those Who've Fail'd. -- The Voice of the… 1 exemplar(es)
Kosmos 1 exemplar(es)
Short Stories by Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman's poems 1 exemplar(es)
Cîntec despre mine 1 exemplar(es)
I hear the people singing;: Selected poems of Walt Whitman; (Young world books) (1946) 1 exemplar(es)
Blue Book: Volume II: Textual Analysis 1 exemplar(es)
Poèmes de Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Opere alese 1 exemplar(es)
Poesías 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Writings Vol. 1 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Writings Vol. 2 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Writings Vol. 4 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Writings Vol. 5 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Writings Vol. 6 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Writings Vol. 7 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Writings Vol. 8 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Writings Vol. 9 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Writings Vol. 10 1 exemplar(es)
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman Vol. 1 1 exemplar(es)
Io canto me stesso 1 exemplar(es)
THREE POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN SET TO MUSIC BY R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 1. NOCTURNE - 2. A CLEAR MIDNIGHT - 3. JOY, SHIPMATE,… (1925) 1 exemplar(es)
Canto di una vita immensa 1 exemplar(es)
Werke 1 exemplar(es)
Poems and prose 1 exemplar(es)
Poesia Diversi - Walt Whitman - n. 5 - settimanale 1 exemplar(es)
Leaves of grass, Democratic vistas, specimen days, with a biographical and critical introduction 1 exemplar(es)
I hear the people singing; selected poems of Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
Demokratski vidici 1 exemplar(es)
a child's reminiscence 1 exemplar(es)
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Whitman, Walt
- Nome de batismo
- Whitman, Walter
- Outros nomes
- Whitman, Walt
- Data de nascimento
- 1819-05-31
- Data de falecimento
- 1892-03-26
- Local de enterro
- Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Camden, New Jersey, USA
- Causa da morte
- miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis
- Locais de residência
- Washington, D.C., USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Georgetown, Colorado, USA
Laurel Springs, New Jersey, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Educação
- self-educated
- Ocupação
- poet
novelist
short-story writer
essayist
editor
teacher (mostrar todas 12)
nurse
typesetter
apprentice printer
convention delegate
journalist
clerk (Bureau of Indian Affairs ∙ U.S. Department of the Interior) - Organizações
- The Patriot
Long Islander
Long Island Democrat
Brooklyn Eagle - Premiações
- The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1930)
Gave Commencement Address at Dartmouth College (1872)
Walt Whitman Bridge - Pequena biografia
- Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality.
Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman resided in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At the age of 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. Later, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money and became well known. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it 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 death of Abraham Lincoln, whom Whitman greatly admired, he wrote his well known poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures. After a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at the age of 72, his funeral was a public event.
Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe argued: "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."
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