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Walt(er) Whitman (1819-1892)
American poet, journalist and essayist, best known for LEAVES OF GRASS (1855), which was occasionally banned, and the poems I Sing the Body Electric and Song of Myself. Whitman incorporated natural speech rhythms into poetry. He disregarded metre, but the overall effect has a melodic character. Harold Bloom has stated in The Western Canon (1994) that no Western poet, in the past century and half, not even Browning, or Leopardi or Baudelaire, overshadows Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson.
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and
knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own,
And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,
And that all men ever born are also my brothers... and the
women my sisters and lovers.
(from Song of Myself)
Walt Whitman was born in Long Island, New York, the son of a Quaker carpenter. Whitmans mother was descended from Dutch farmers. In Whitmans childhood there were slaves employed on the farm. Whitman was early on filled with a love of nature. He read classics in his youth and was inspired by writers such as Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle and Emerson. He left school early to become a printers apprentice. He also in 1835 worked as a teacher and journeyman printer. After that he held a great variety of jobs while writing and editing for several periodicals, The Brooklyn Eagle from 1846 to 1848 and The Brooklyn Times from 1857 to 1858. In between he spent three months on a
In New York Whitman witnessed the rapid growth of the city and wanted to write a new kind of poetry in tune with mankinds new faith, hopeful expectations and energy of his days. Another theme in Song of Myself is suffering and death - he identified with Jesus and his fate: In vain were nails driven through my hands. / I remember my crucifixion and bloody coronation / I remember the mockers and the buffeting insults / The sepulchre and the whit
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