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By Walt Whitman. 1. Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face. Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me! On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose, And ...
May 31, 2019 · Walt Whitman is perhaps America’s most admired poet. His work, now praised for its themes of equality and democracy, was once shunned for its experimental verse and discussion of sexuality.
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Walt Whitman ( Huntington, 31 de maio de 1819 – Camden, 26 de março de 1892) foi um poeta, ensaísta e jornalista estadunidense, considerado por muitos como o "pai do verso livre ". Paulo Leminski o considerava o grande poeta da Revolução americana, como Maiakovsky seria o grande poeta da Revolução russa. [ 1]
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, who. Walter Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and ...
WALT WHITMAN. 1819 - 1892. Walt Whitman, a male nurse who cared for the Civil War wounded in Washington, D.C., was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, New York, a village near Hempstead, Long Island. He was the second son of Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor. In 1855, while working as a journalist, he self-published the ...
On December 16, 1862, poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) saw the name of his brother George, a member of the New York 51st Volunteers, listed among the wounded at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the New York Herald. Whitman rushed from his home in Brooklyn, New York, to the Washington, D.C., area to search the hospitals and encampments.
