Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on May 31, 1819, to a large, working-class family in Long Island. However, when Whitman was just four years old the family relocated to the growing city of Brooklyn. By the age of eleven he had finished his formal education and started work as a labourer. His first paid position was the role of office boy for a group of prominent Brooklyn lawyers, who gave him a subscription to a circulating library. Whitman subsequently became an avid reader, and would frequently visit the cities museums, self-educating himself across a variety of disciplines through the developing public resources of America's fastest growing city. Throughout his adult life he worked in a variety of different roles: teacher, printer, and writer, contributing to newspapers and magazines across the United States. During the American Civil War (1861-1865) he volunteered as a nurse, working amongst the wounded in field hospitals. This experience influenced his wartime poems Drum Taps (1865), and his later autobiographical prose work Specimen Days (1882).
Walt Whitman, from Ohio Wesleyan University, Bayley Collection via The Walt Whitman Archive
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| 1 | Walt Whitman's Editorial Work on the New York Aurora | From the website: "The Whitman Archive presents page images of the Aurora from 28 March 1842, when… | |
| 2 | Whitman's Journalism | Links to essays, editorials, and other contributions. From the website: "The Whitman Archive is… | |
| 3 | Bibliography of Whitman's poems first published in periodicals | From the website: "This bibliography includes all poems for which the Whiman Archive currently has… | |
| 4 | Editing Whitman's Poetry in Periodicals | ||
| 5 | Introduction to Whitman's Poems in Periodicals | Introduction to the work on poems that Whitman published in different newspapers, magazines, and… | |
| 6 | Leaves of Grass | The poems of Walt Whitman [selected] with introduction by Ernest Rhys. London: Walter Scott, 24… | |
| 7 | Poems by Walt Whitman | Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti. London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly. 1868.… | |
| 8 | Leaves of Grass: six American editions | Six American editions of Leaves of Grass published in Whitman's lifetime. Available as eTexts and… | |
| 9 | Walt Whitman, poet and democrat | ||
| 10 | Alias Walt Whitman | Newark, N.J : The Carteret book club |