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Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) American poet who linked the Transcendentalist poets with the more realistic style of the Twentieth Century. Whitman Magnus opus was Leaves of Grass, a groundbreaking new style of poetry.

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Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, US on May 31, 1819.

He was the second child in a family of eleven. His parents were Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor.

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Whitman grew up in the Brooklyn district of New York and Long Island. At the age of twelve, Whitman began learning to work as a printer. It was around this time that he discovered a great passion for literature. Largely self-taught, he read voraciously, including works by the great classic writers – Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible.

After a devastating fire in the printing district of New York, Whitman was left without a job, But, in 1836, at the age of 17, he began his career as a teacher in the one-room school houses of Long Island. He contin