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Walt Whitman

Also known as Walter Whitman

American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)

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Walt Whitman, born Walter Whitman on 31 May 1819 in West Hills, Long Island, was an American writer, publisher, essayist, and typographer. He died in Camden on 26 March 1892. His notable works include *Leaves of Grass* and *O Captain! My Captain!*. He was influenced by Dante Alighieri, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, James Fenimore Cooper, and Charles Dickens.

Whitman’s native language was English, and he adhered to deism and mysticism. His archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Harry Ransom Center, and the New York Public Library Main Branch. He is described in sources such as *Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography*, the *Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia*, the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition*.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 31 May 1819
Died: 26 March 1892
Works: 1076

Top works

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Film & TV

Writing · West Hills, Town of Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA

Walter Whitman Jr. (/ˈhwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time,…

Known for

A Supermarket in Californi — Self (voice) (archive)2024
Walt Whitman — Self (archive footage)2008

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1819
Active to: 1892

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Discography

Leaves of Grass2019

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 6,224
Total plays: 24,652

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell'd. Study not only their productions. There is a still higher school for him who would kindle his fire with coal from the altar of the loftiest and purest art. It is the school of all grand actions and grand virtues, of heroism, of the death of patriots and martyrs — of all the mighty deeds written in the pages of history — deeds of daring, and enthusiasm, devotion, and fortitude.”
“In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base", a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.”
“We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them. They will be found ampler than has been supposed, and in widely different sources. Thus far, impress'd by New England writers and schoolmasters, we tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States has been fashion'd from the British Islands only, and essentially form a second England only — which is a very great mistake.”
“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”
“I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.”
“I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!" He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."”

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Works in European collections

11 objects attributed to Walt Whitman, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Symphonies, A, orch, Arr. Sketches - BSB Mus.ms. 13252 : [without title]

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Concertos, pf, winds, stck, Excerpts. Fragments - BSB Mus.ms. 12931 : II. Satz // Mélodie

Symphonies, A, orch, Arr - BSB Mus.ms. 12953 : 1. Symphonie // für eine Altstimme und Orchester // (Versuch eines Requiems) // von // Karl Amadeus Hartmann // Text nach Walt Whithman // (übertragen von Hans Reisiger) // Introduktion: Elend // Lied: Frühling // Zwischenspiel: Varationen // Lied: Tränen // Epilog: Bitte

Pieces, Excerpts - BSB Mus.ms. 12930 : [without collection title]

Pieces - BSB Mus.ms. 12937 : [without collection title]

Symphonies, A, orch, Arr. Excerpts. Sketches. Fragments - BSB Mus.ms. 12955 : [without title]

Symphonies, A, orch, Sketches - BSB Mus.ms. 13251 : [without title]

Symphonies, A, pf, Arr. Sketches. Fragments - BSB Mus.ms. 13249 : [without title]

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Encyclopedic overview

Whitman was born in Huntington on Long Island and lived in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At age 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. He worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, was financed with his own money and became well known. The work was an attempt to reach out to the common person with an American epic. Whitman continued expanding and revising Leaves of Grass until his death in 1892.

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