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About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Whitman should be kicked from all decent society as below the level of a brute."
-The Intelligencer, 1855 "The greatest of our poets . . . the American bard, our Homer and our Milton."
-Harold Bloom, 2005