Walt Whitman 、Emily Dickinson 、 Mark Twain.pptVIP

* * Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Born on Long Island, New York, Walt Whitman was the son of a poor Quaker farmer-carpenter, and left school at eleven to work as an office boy, first for a law firm and then for a newspaper. Although he had only a few years of formal education he was a rapid and eager reader having read, he later said, almost all of Sir Walter Scott’s novels and much of his poetry before he was twelve. He soon became a typesetter, began contributing short items to his own and other journals. When he was seventeen two big fires temporarily halted the development of the printing indu