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A Dictionary of American History
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Whitman, Walt
Whitman, Walt (b. Huntington, Long Island, N.Y., 31 May 1819; d. Camden, N.J., 26 March 1892) He grew up in Brooklyn, left school at the age of 11, worked at several odd jobs until becoming a journalist in 1841, and was a hospital nurse in the Civil War. In 1855 he published Leaves of Grass, of which nine editions were updated and printed in his lifetime. This book marked Whitman as the Romantic era’s most original and daring US poet, and profoundly influenced later authors by its rejection of traditional stylistic conventions, its exuberant embrace of distinctively American subjects, and its frank handling of sexual topics and terms. Other major works include Drum Taps (1865), Passage to India (1871), Democratic Vistas (1871), and Good-bye, My Fancy (1891).
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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "Whitman, Walt," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed September 30, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=USP7WE9994LB5ZC.
MLA: Purvis, Thomas L. "Whitman, Walt." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 30 Sep. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=USP7WE9994LB5ZC.
Harvard: Purvis, TL, 'Whitman, Walt' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 30 September 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=USP7WE9994LB5ZC.
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