Walt Whitman(1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in
Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman
compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse
to Northern and Southern soldiers.
Harold Bloomwas the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale
University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard.
His more than twenty-five books includedWhere Shall Wisdom Be
Found?; Hamlet; Genius; How to Read and Why; Shakespeare- The
Invention of the Human; The Western Canon; The Book of J; and The
Anxiety of Influence. He was a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many
awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for
Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia,
and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.
"Whitman's best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly
painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years."
--Malcolm Cowley
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