Walter Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War in addition to publishing his poetry. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). After working as clerk, teacher, journalist and laborer, Whitman wrote his masterpiece, Leaves of Grass, pioneering free verse poetry in a humanistic celebration of humanity, in 1855. Emerson, whom Whitman revered, said of Leaves of Grass that it held "incomparable things incomparably said." During the Civil War, Whitman worked as an army nurse, later writing Drum Taps (1865) and Memoranda During the War (1867). His health compromised by the experience, he was given work at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. After a stroke in 1873, which left him partially paralyzed, Whitman lived his next 20 years with his brother, writing mainly prose, such as Democratic Vistas (1870). Leaves of Grass was published in nine editions, with Whitman elaborating on it in each successive edition. In 1881, the book had the compliment of being banned by the commonwealth of Massachusetts on charges of immorality. A good friend of Robert Ingersoll, Whitman was at most a Deist who scorned religion. D. 1892. More: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/ http://philosopedia.org/index.php/Wal... http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/126 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/w... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt\_Whi... http://www.poemhunter.com/walt-whitman/
Books
Walt Whitman's Drum-taps
1865
Foglie d'erba
1971
Walt Whitman's Guide to Manly Health and Training
1858
Live Oak, with Moss
2019
There Was a Child Went Forth
1943
Leaves of Grass
The Original 1855 Edition
1855
Diario de la guerra civil
2008
The World Below the Brine
1940
El gran libro de los perros
Los mejores relatos, ensayos y poemas de la literatura canina universal
2018
Memoranda during the War
1988
Poetry for Young People
Walt Whitman
1977
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
1856
O Me! O Life!
2012
Earth, My Likeness
Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman
2005
Mannahatta
2012
Whitman
Poems
1994
Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love
"Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"
2011
Somewhere Waiting
Song of Myself
2018
Selected Poems
1892
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
An Auto-Biography; A Story of New York at the Present Time in which the Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters
1852
The Portable Walt Whitman
1945
Whitman
1955
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
1865
The Complete Poems
1892
Walt Whitman's Diary
A Summer in Canada, 1880
2018
Folhas de erva - vol. 1
2002
Poetry and Prose
1982
Leaves of Grass
First and "Death-Bed" Editions
2004
A Choice of Whitman's Verse
1968
Miracles
1973
Leaves of Grass
1855
Laws for Creations
2006
Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose
2014
The Complete Walt Whitman
Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, Patriotic Poems, Complete Prose Works, The Wound Dresser, Letters
1995
Stébla trávy
1938
On the Beach at Night
2012
Voyages
Poems
1988
Passage to India
1992
Democratic Vistas
1871
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
2012
Rivelerò io cosa dire di me (Gli alianti)
1897
Alone on the Beach at Night
1892
Essential Whitman
1999
Poems by Walt Whitman
1892
Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t
2018
Walt Whitman
Complete Prose Works
1872
Whitman
Poems
1994
Three Great American Poets (Borders Leatherbound Classics) by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost (2001) Leather Bound
1996
Walt Whitman Speaks
His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America
2019
Six American Poets
An Anthology
1991
Song of Myself
1856
An American Primer
1904
The Poetry of Walt Whitman
1995
The Sacrificial Years
A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil W
1999
Drum-Taps and Memoranda During the War
2011
Song of the Open Road
2012
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings
1855
Works of Walt Whitman
1968
A Noiseless Patient Spider
1868
Leaves of Grass
1856 Edition
2008
I Sing the Body Electric
1855
Civil War Poetry and Prose
1872
Poetry for Kids
Walt Whitman
2017
Spontaneous Me
2012
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
1913
Democratic Vistas and Other Papers
1871
Leaves of Grass
Selected Poems
2019
Specimen Days
1882
Nothing But Miracles
2003
The Open Road
Walt Whitman on Death & Dying
1996
Selections from Leaves of Grass
1961
Masculine Beauty
A Collection of Walt Whitman's Poetry Of Same-Sex Affection
2014
I Hear America Singing
1966
Specimen Days & Collect
1882
Oh Captain! My Captain!
1865
Selected Poems 1855-1892
1980
The Collected Poems of Walt Whitman
1942
The Walt Whitman Reader
Selections from Leaves of Grass
2000
Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate
A Tale of the Times
1842
