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Walt Whitman: The Life and Legacy of One of America's Most Influential Poets

Walt Whitman: The Life and Legacy of One of America's Most Influential Poets

Charles River

Paperback

Historical FiguresCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 1985881306
ISBN13: 9781985881303
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 26 2018
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.16 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
*Includes pictures
*Includes Whitman's quotes and excerpts of poetry
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. - Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, the great American poet, is also in many ways a great American enigma, for more and less are known about him than other famous men in 19th century American history. On the one hand, he was the product of something of an all-American family, the sort of salt of the earth people he would later describe so vividly in his work. On the other, he was a complete bohemian and profligate, given to vanity in the way he dressed and lived. He started out his career as a school teacher and was later a newspaper man, but he left both those types of work for a job as a government bureaucrat. As a young man, when most of his peers were sowing their wild oats, he was considered by many to be a stick in the mud who neither drank nor chased women. Then, as a middle-aged man, when his peers had settled down into quieter lives, he remained single and seems to have pursued romantic relationships with both men and women.

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