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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Walt Whitman
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Walt Whitman

West Hills, Long Island, 1819 - 1892, Camden, New Jersey
BiographyWalt Whitman, in full Walter Whitman, (born May 31, 1819, West Hills, Long Island, New York, U.S.
—died March 26, 1892, Camden, New Jersey), American poet, journalist, and essayist whose verse
collection Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, is a landmark in the history of American
literature.
URL: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Whitman
ACCESS DATE: December 06, 2018
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Last Updated8/7/24