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- Born: May 31, 1819
- Birthplace: Long Island, New York
- Literary Genre: Poetry
- Influenced modern poets William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, and Allen Ginsberg
- Deist
- Rumored to be homosexual or bisexual
- Opposed slavery, but not an abolitionist
- Advocate of temperance
- Died: March 26, 1892
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Career
In 1850, Walt Whitman started writing his magnum opus, Leaves of Grass, a collection of poems stemming largely from his observations of the times. Though some criticized it as "obscene" for its sexual themes, writer Ralph Waldo Emerson publicly praised it, generating further interest in Whitman's work.Whitman spent the rest of his life revising and adding to Leaves, incorporating his experiences as an office worker and volunteer nurse in the Civil War, as well as various family and health troubles he faced at the War's end.
In 1873, Whitman suffered a stroke, but managed to write further editions of Leaves before his death of tuberculosis in 1892. He remains one of America's most significant and influential poets.
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Walt Whitman Questions
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Walt Whitman Timeline
- May 31, 1819: Born Huntington Long Island, New York
- 1831-35: Educates himself on printing
- 1855: Leaves of Grass
- 1863-64: Civil War volunteer nurse and military office clerk
- 1865: "O'Captain! My Captain!" | "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
- 1873: Suffers paralytic stroke
- 1875: Memoranda During the War
- 1882: Meets Oscar Wilde | Specimen Days and Collect
- 1888: Has second stroke | November Boughs
- March 26, 1892: Dies
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."~ Walt Whitman
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RT @iheartquotes: I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. - Walt Whitman.
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""For I am mad with devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth." - Walt Whitman, "Excelsior"
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True RT @iheartquotes: I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. - Walt Whitman. | RT @zakesc
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