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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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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

From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig

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

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Whitman, Walt, on the world's greatest books, 113, 114.

From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman

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