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Song of Myself: The Life of America’s Poet, Walt Whitman

Song of Myself: The Life of America’s Poet, Walt Whitman

  Historians have said you can’t really have America without Walt Whitman. His works still speaks to the soul of the country, of freedom and self-determination. He himself lived a varied and unconventional life that no doubt shaped his writings.   Read our short biography on the man behind some of America’s greatest poetry.     He was born in 1819 in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children. At age four, the family moved to Brooklyn. Whitman remembered his childhood as marred with financial difficulties, and the family would have to move often.   Despite being the focus of many a high school English class, Whitman himself left school at age 11. He worked a variety of...

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