1. Walt Whitman - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia He was the second of nine children 4 and immediately nicknamed Walt to distinguish him from his father. 5 After Walt Whitman, Sr. named three of his http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman

Walt Whitman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Walter J Whitman Walt Whitman, 1887 Born May 31 West Hills Town of Huntington Long Island ... New York Died March 26 Camden, New Jersey Walter Whitman May 31 March 26 ) was an American poet essayist journalist , and humanist . He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and Realism , incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the "father of free verse ". His work is also very controversial, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass , which has been described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Born on Long Island in 1819, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and a nurse during the American Civil War in addition to publishing his poetry. Early in his career, he even produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman first published Leaves of Grass in 1855 with his own money as an attempt at reaching out to the common man with an American epic . He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. Whitman's sexuality is often discussed alongside his poetry. Often labeled as either

2. Walt Whitman --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Walt Whitman American poet, journalist, and essayist whose verse collection Leaves of Grass is a landmark in the http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076878/Walt-Whitman

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3. Walt Whitman - Wikiquote This has been widely attributed to Whitman, and no one else, but without definite source. It has sometimes been cited as being from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman

Walt Whitman From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face, Leaving it to you to prove and define it, Expecting the main things from you. ~ Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman May 31 March 26 ) was an American poet , most famous for his work Leaves of Grass Contents Sourced Disputed Unsourced See also ... edit Sourced It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess. Who would not mourn that an ample palace, of surpassingly graceful architecture, fill’d with luxuries, and embellish’d with fine pictures and sculpture, should stand cold and still and vacant, and never be known or enjoy’d by its owner? Would such a fact as this cause your sadness? Then be sad. For there is a palace, to which the courts of the most sumptuous kings are but a frivolous patch, and, though it is always waiting for them, not one of its owners ever enters there with any genuine sense of its grandeur and glory. I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

4. The Underground Railroad Site - Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (18191892). This fisherman, editor, journalist, carpenter, bureaucrat, and poet revolutionized poetry by choosing such uncommon subjects such http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Whitman.htm

When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom'd Abraham Lincoln Works Cited Walt Whitman (1819-1892) This fisherman, editor, journalist, carpenter, bureaucrat, and poet revolutionized poetry by choosing such uncommon subjects such as the "values of the common, the miracle of the mouse, the wholesome soundness of the calloused hand, the body's sweat," and men and women's sexuality in his anthology Leaves of Grass. His free verse, use of rhythm and choice of symbols pushed the limits of the poetic form and made it accessible even to the common man/woman. Several of his masterpieces include the poems " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ," or "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" where he paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln and his cause and which revealed his American democratic idealism. He sympathized with the efforts to end slavery and save the Union during the American Civil War. He strongly believed in the liberty of all human beings in this cosmos of which we are all part. The preface to the Leaves of Grass reveals his idealism:

5. Literary Encyclopedia: Walt Whitman Walt Whitman addressed his poetry to “Americanos . . . a new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests, / New politics, http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4702

6. The Walt Whitman Archive The walt whitman Archive is a scholarly resource codirected by Dr. Ed Folsom (U. Iowa) and Dr. Kenneth M. Price (U Nebraska-Lincoln). http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

Support the Archive Advanced Search The Walt Whitman Archive Published Works Leaves; Periodical Printings; Foreign Editions Manuscripts Transcriptions; Images; Finding Aids Life; Letters; Conversations Criticism Reviews; Commentary; Disciples; Bibliography Portraits of Whitman; Audio Resources Advanced Search; Teaching Materials About the Archive People; Policies; History September 1, 2007 Whitman Archive nears its fundraising goal of $1.5 million for NEH challenge grant. Help us meet the challenge. November, 2007 Why the new design? August, 2006 Integrated finding guide to Whitman's poetry manuscripts is honored with the C.F.W. Coker Award for Description from the Society of American Archivists More News Walt Whitman Archive The Walt Whitman Archive is freely distributed by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

7. Walt Whitman Detailed biography, selection of poems, and portrait. http://www.poets.org/wwhit/

8. Walt Whitman Collection At Bartleby.com Searchable works, quotations, small portrait. Also a chapter on whitman from a history of American literature. http://www.bartleby.com/people/WhitmnW.html

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9. Poet At Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s-1860s - (American Memory From The Lib The Thomas B. Harned collection of the walt whitman papers, housed in the Manuscript division at the Library of Congress, spans the period 1842 to 1937. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/

@import url(../../css/am15_global_ss.css); @import url(../ss/AMcoll_index_ss.css); Search all collections Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s -1860s The Library of Congress American Memory Home Browse Collections This collection is not searchable Collection Home About This Collection Features: Gallery The Conservation of the Whitman Notebooks Essays LC's Missing Whitman Notes Found in N.Y. Library Scans Whitman Items - Preserves Them Browse Collection by: "Earliest" Notebook "Perceptions or Senses" Notebook "1862" Notebook "Hospital" Notebook ... View more collections from the Manuscript Division Collection Connection Classroom resources for teachers from the Learning Page [Detail] Walt Whitman. ca. 1877-1883. About this image Poet at Work Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection Overview This collection offers access to the four Walt Whitman Notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995. The Thomas B. Harned collection of the Walt Whitman papers spans the period 1842 to 1937, with most of the items dated from 1855 to 1892. It was donated in 1918. The collection consists of correspondence, poetry and prose manuscripts, notes and notebooks, proofs and offprints, printed matter, and miscellaneous items, laminated and boxed in seven containers, and supplemented by one manuscript box of ancillary material. A detailed description of the Harned collection has been published in the Library of Congress publication

10. Browse The Whitman Collection -- Electronic Text Center The walt whitman Hypertext Archive, compiled and edited by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make http://etext.virginia.edu/whitman/

Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 Users of these texts agree to adhere to our Conditions of Use For tips on searching the collection, consult our helpsheet. Mail Related resources WORKS ... BIOGRAPHY WORKS search all the texts Side-by-side comparator (especially useful for examining multiple versions of Leaves of Grass PROSE Memoranda During the War e-book Palm web version Complete Prose Works Specimen Days Collect Notes Left Over Pieces in Early Youth, 1834-'42. ... Supplementary Prose POETRY Leaves of Grass [First published in 1855, Leaves of Grass was reissued in 1856, 1860, 1867, 1871-2, 1876, 1881-2, and 1891-2] Leaves of Grass [1855] Leaves of Grass [1855] Facsimile version Leaves of Grass [1856] Leaves of Grass [1860] Calamus poems : from Leaves of Grass [3rd Edition. Thayer and Eldridge: Boston, 1860] Leaves of Grass [1867]. Leaves of Grass Leaves of Grass Leaves of Grass Annexes : "Sands at Seventy" (1st Annex, 1888); "Good-Bye my Fancy" (2nd Annex, 1891); "A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads" (1888) Leaves of Grass [1891-1892] e-book Palm web version PROJECTS Faculty The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive , compiled and edited by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price: an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

11. Walt Whitman Quotes - The Quotations Page walt whitman; Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give walt whitman; Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Walt_Whitman/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) US poet [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 31 total We have 1 book review related to Walt Whitman. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Walt Whitman A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman - More quotations on: [ Nature All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt Whitman And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. Walt Whitman Capital Punishment is a silly excuse for fear. The police fear the guy so they say 'Off with his head!' Not only is it morally wrong, but it's medieval! Walt Whitman Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

12. Walt Whitman - Poems And Biography By AmericanPoems.com walt whitman was born on May 31, 1819, on the West Hills of Long Island, New York. His mother, Louisa Van Velsor, of Dutch descent and Quaker faith, http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/waltwhitman/

Poets Members Poem of the Day Top 40 ... Privacy January 27th, 2008 - we have 237 poets , 8034 poems and 16588 comments Biography of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, on the West Hills of Long Island, New York. His mother, Louisa Van Velsor, of Dutch descent and Quaker faith, whom he adored, was barely literate. She never read his poetry, but gave him unconditional love. His father of English lineage, was a carpenter and builder of houses, and a stern disciplinarian. His main claim to fame was his friendship with Tom Paine, whose pamphlet Common Sense (1776), urging the colonists to throw off English domination was in his sparse library. It is doubtful that his father read any of his son's poetry, or would have understood it if he had. The senior Walt was too burdened with the struggle to support his ever-growing family of nine children, four of whom were handicapped. Young Walt, the second of nine, was withdrawn from public school at the age of eleven to help support the family. At the age of twelve he started to learn the printer's trade, and fell in love with the written and printed word. He was mainly self-taught. He read voraciously, and became acquainted with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Scott early in life. He knew the Bible thoroughly, and as a God-intoxicated poet, desired to inaugurate a religion uniting all of humanity in bonds of friendship. In 1836, at the age of 17, he began his career as an innovative teacher in the one-room school houses of Long Island. He permitted his students to call him by his first name, and devised learning games for them in arithmetic and spelling. He continued to teach school until 1841, when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. He soon became editor for a number of Brooklyn and New York papers. From 1846 to 1847 Whitman was the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Whitman went to New Orleans in 1848, where he was editor for a brief time of the "New Orleans Crescent". In that city he had become fascinated with the French language. Many of his poems contain words of French derivation. It was in New Orleans that he experienced at first hand the viciousness of slavery in the slave markets of that city.

13. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) walt whitman, bibliography, class notes, information, links to texts and information. http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/whitman.htm

Home Literary Movements Timeline American Authors ... American Literature Sites Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Selected Bibliography on Leaves of Grass Common Questions on Walt Whitman Walt Whitman, America's Poet (PowerPoint) ... Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive. This excellent and innovative site by Professors Ed Folsom of the University of Iowa and Kenneth Price of the University of Nebraska is an essential stop for those working on Whitman. (Photo courtesy of this site) Walt Whitman and Slavery. Part of the excellent Whitman and Dickinson project, t his site by Kenneth M. Price of the University of Nebraska includes a critical essay, a bibliography, quotations, and teaching materials. Poets.org Guide to Leaves of Grass An 8-page .pdf file that provides a good introduction to the poet and the reception of the work along with a close reading of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." Foregrounds and Apprenticeships. This site focuses on Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, including Dickinson's relationship with Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Whitman's with Emerson. It contains a timeline, excerpts from letters and criticism, and a bibliography. John Townsend Trowbridge's "Reminiscences of Walt Whitman" Atlantic Walt Whitman's Democracy " by Walter Blackburn Harte (1892) An essay on Drum-Taps by Angel Price at the University of Virginia's Crossroads site.

14. I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman An illustrated history of the poet s life complete with biography, timeline, selected works, and video clips. From PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/whitman.html

WALT WHITMAN "I sing...the body electric, a song of myself, a song of joys, a song of occupations, a song of prudence, a song of the answerer, a song of the broad-axe, a song of the rolling earth, a song of the universal..." [ POEMS ] [ CHRONOLOGY ] Quicktime Video, 944 K Thomas Hampson on Whitman's compassion W alt Whitman caroled throughout his verse. For the Bard of Democracy, as America came to call our great poet, music was a central metaphor in his life and work, both as a metaphysical mindset and as a practical reality. Whitman was blessed with an extraordinary ear for inner rhythms which he then articulated in the radically free, rolling, thrusting verses which revitalized the entire world of poetic language. That same ear led him to the appreciation of classical music. For the poet this was a largely self-taught quest in which he relied on both his innate musicality and his experience as a music journalist to formulate aesthetic principles that would carry over into his poetry. Whitman from an 1840's daguerrotype.

15. Walt Whitman - Biography And Works walt whitman. Biography of walt whitman and a searchable collection of works. http://www.online-literature.com/walt-whitman/

The Literature Network Authors: 260 Books: 2,260 Forum Members: 41,657 Forum Posts: 465,479 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Walt Whitman Walt Whitman Search all of Walt Whitman Advanced Search Walt Whitman (1819-1892) , American poet, essayist, and journalist wrote numerous influential poems including “Song of Myself”; I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. .. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy and “I Sing the Body Electric”; I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

16. Walt Whitman Short biography of the American poet, with selected bibliography. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wwhitman.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Walt(er) Whitman (1819-1892) American poet, journalist and essayist, best known for LEAVES OF GRASS (1855), which was occasionally banned, and the poems 'I Sing the Body Electric' and 'Song of Myself.' Whitman incorporated natural speech rhythms into poetry. He disregarded metre, but the overall effect has a melodic character. Harold Bloom has stated in The Western Canon (1994) that "no Western poet, in the past century and half, not even Browning, or Leopardi or Baudelaire, overshadows Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson." "Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth; And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own, And that all men ever born are also my brothers... and the women my sisters and lovers." (from 'Song of Myself') Walt Whitman was born in Long Island, New York, the son of a Quaker carpenter. Whitman's mother was descended from Dutch farmers. In Whitman's childhood there were slaves employed on the farm. Whitman was early on filled with a love of nature. He read classics in his youth and was inspired by writers such as Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle and

17. Walt Whitman - Introduction When walt whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass on or around the fourth day of July in 1855, he believed he was embarking on a personal http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/whitman.html

Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass originally displayed March-April 1992 curated by Anthony Szczesiul hypertext development by Jason A. Pierce Walt Whitman in 1887. Photograph by George C. Cox, New York. Hits since 1 June 1998: Introduction When Walt Whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass on or around the fourth day of July in 1855, he believed he was embarking on a personal literary journey of national significance. Setting out to define the American experience, Whitman consciously hoped to answer Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1843 essay, "The Poet," which called for a truly original national poet, one who would sing of the new country in a new voice. The undertaking required unlimited optimism, especially considering the fact that Whitman had published only a small handful of poems prior to 1855; however, Whitman felt confident that the time was ripe and that the people would embrace him. This optimism and confidence resulted largely from his awareness of the tremendous changes in the American literary world that had taken place during his lifetime. At the time of Whitman's birth in 1819, the Constitution and the democratic ideas upon which this country was founded were only a generation old; America was a land of seemingly unlimited space, resources, and possibilities, yet a land with no cultural roots to call its own. In 1820, a year after Whitman's birth, Sydney Smith of Britain's

18. Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site And Interpretive Center - Index Official website of the walt whitman Birthplace, Americas greatest poet, author of Leaves of Grass, a New York State Historic Site. http://www.waltwhitman.org/

Home About WWBA About Whitman Exhibitions Calendar of Events ... Robert Hansen Event Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center Listed on the National Register of Historic Places Whitman ca. 1870. Photo by G. Frank Pearsall Birthplace ca. 2000.Photo by George Mallis Please view our MUSEUM SHOP Official Site of the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center administered by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, West Hills, NY 11746-4148 (631) 427-5240 * email: wwba@optonline.net Download Our Brochure Our Major Sponsors Website Design CharityAdvantage.com

19. Whitman As Transcendentalist Was walt whitman a Transcendentalist? Had he been been older, . Perhaps I remember best the poem of walt whitman, an American, and the SunDown Poem. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/roots/legacy/whitman/index.html

Walt Whitman Whitman and Transcendentalism Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist? Had he been been older, born into the educated class, gone to Harvard, and lived in Boston or Concord, there would be little doubt, although it's interesting to consider what kind of impact he might have had on the transcendental circle. But he was a late bloomer, coming to poetry at the age of 37, after a career as a journalist, spurred on by his reading of Emerson. He was certain that HE was the poet that Emerson called for in "The Poet," a characterization that he makes clear in his Preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass . Although his poetry has many characteristics of transcendental thought and practice, being the bold, new poetic American voice that the transcendentalists had hoped for, his most "transcendental" poems are probably "Song of Myself" [web study text] because of its vision of the self and its relationship to the universe, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," [web study text] because of its dramatization of the evolution of the poet, and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" [web study text] because of how he uses nature as symbol.

20. PAL: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (from Malcolm Cowley, Introduction to Leaves of Grass, 1959 in walt whitman edited by Francis Murphy, 1969, Penguin Critical Anthologies.) http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/whitman.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 4: Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) Outside Links: Library of Congress WW Page Leaves of Grass Searchable 1891 Leaves of Grass Page Links: Emerson's Letter to WW Primary Works Contributions Leaves of Grass ... "The Song of Myself" Selected Bibliography Biographical 1980-1999 Biographical 2000-Present Critical 1980-1999 Critical 2000-Present ... MLA Style Citation of this Web Page Site Links: Chap 4: Index Authors Alphabetical List Table Of Contents Home Page March 28, 2007 "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil." - WW "Reminiscences of Walt Whitman," by John Townsend Trowbridge, The Atlantic Monthly , February 1902 The Walt Whitman Archive Old Walt Old Walt Whitman Went finding and seeking, Finding less than sought Seeking more than found, Every detail minding Of the seeking or the finding.

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