Whitman, Walt

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1. A nineteenth-century American poet. His principal work is Leaves of Grass, a collection of poems that celebrates nature, democracy, and individualism.

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The earthiness of Whitman's poetry shocked many readers of his time.

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Whitman, Walt, 21, 43, 49, 114, 165, 184.

From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Whitman, Walt, 50; A Day with, 201; Leaves of Grass, 212, 213.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

Whitman, Walt, volunteer nurse, pen picture of war, 247.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring

The volume contains the following by Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman and his Poems, pp. 13-21.

From The Bibliography of Walt Whitman by Shay, Frank

Whitman, Walt: his enumerations, 325, 326; journal, 344, 346.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell