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    Walt Whitman, arguably America's most influential and innovative poet, was born into a working class family in West Hills on Long Island, on May 31, 1819, just thirty years after George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the newly formed United States.

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  2. Dec 7, 2022 · Retracing Walt Whitmans Steps Through Brooklyn and Manhattan The poet wandered for himself and for his various day jobs with New York City newspapers. Some of his haunts are still standing...

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  4. News about Walt Whitman, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

  5. Apr 30, 2022 · 7 min. 48. Long before the current wave of book banning targeted titles including “The 1619 Project” and “Everywhere Babies,” Walt Whitmans “Leaves of Grass” was banned from libraries across...

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  6. Walt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship. This monumental work chanted praises to the body as well as to the soul, and found beauty and reassurance…

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