Walt Whitman

Walt 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.

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