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Outline Walt Whitman’s Life Walt Whitman’s Major Works Comments on Walt Whitman Walt Whitman’s Life Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman was the second son of a house-builder. Largely self-taught, he read voraciously, becoming acquainted with the Bible and the works of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare. In 1836, at the age of 17, he began his career as a teacher in the one-room school houses of Long Island. He continued to teach until 1841, when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. Walt Whitman’s Life In the fall of 1848, he founded a free soil newspaper, the Brooklyn Freeman, and cont