《英美文学教学资料》Whitman.pptVIP

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes)” A national figure in American literary history “The greatest democrat the world has seen” openness, freedom, equality, fraternity, individualism and democracy His Life Born on Long Island, New York, Grew up in Brooklyn, where he left school at 11. Did various jobs: an office boy, a doctor’s helper, a printer’s assistant, a journalist, a typesetter, an itinerant(巡回的) schoolteacher, etc. His life experiences had an effect on the themes and manner of his poetry. His book g