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

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin

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

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

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

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

Whitman, Walt, 180, 182, 213, 217;    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, 182;    Song of Myself, 182;    Song of the Open Road, 217.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

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

From The Bibliography of Walt Whitman by Frank Shay

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