I celebrate myself; / And what I assume you shall assume; / For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you. —Leaves of Grass Walt
Walt Whitman 1819–92, American poet, b. West Hills, N.Y. Considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, Walt Whitman celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man. His Leaves of Grass, unconventional in both content and technique, is probably the most influential volume of poems in the history of American literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: hw from The American Heritage®
WORKS
Leaves of Grass . 1900.
In 1855 Whitman published Leaves of Grass (later known as Song of Myself ) in which the author proclaims himself the symbolic representative of common people.
Prose Works . 1892.
The Good Gray Poet also contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with his war diaries, Prefaces and Democratic Vistas.
Preface to Leaves of Grass
From the Harvard Classics
Bartlett’s Whitman Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
Whitman, Walt, 63961 to 64139
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
WRITINGS ABOUT WHITMAN
“Whitman ”
Chapter by Emory Holloway from the Cambridge History of American Literature
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