Whitman, Walt

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

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

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Whitman, Walt, 22, 40, 102, 270, 349, 358.

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

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Whitman, Walt, 24, 86, 108-109, 115, 132, 134, 187, 190-191, 227 257.

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But he says of Whitman: "Walt's great poems are really huge, fat tomb-plants, great, rank, graveyard growths"; and then: " Whitman was the first heroic seer to seize the soul by the scruff of her neck and plant her down among the potsherds."

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

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