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Unit Ten Walt Whitman (1819 ---- 1892) Both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were American poets in theme and technique. Walt Whitman holds an unique position in the history of American literature. Leaves of Grass ,1855 “I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile and stingy Nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperamen