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Walt Whitmans Works

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  Walt Whitman's Works
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Walter Whitman, Jr., was born on May 31, 1819, at Long Island, New
  
  York, to poor, obscure parents of English, Dutch, and Welsh descent-- the second son in
  
  a family of nine children. The first of his work was called "Leaves of Grass", at 1855. "It
  
  represents him as such, in shirt and trousers, with one hand on his hip and the other in his
  
  pocket (7; 137)." " 'Leaves of Grass,' is Whitman's own means of freeing himself from the
  
  outward and understandable world of precipitating himself into the mood of ecstasy (7;
  
  164)." About eight hundred copies of "Leaves of Grass" were printed. Very few were
  
  sold. Dr. Bucke, Whitman's first biographer, replies, "Whitman can in the 'Leaves of
  
  Grass' identify the traces of Whitman's first remarkable mystic experience (7; 144)." The
  
  readers of "Leaves of Grass" discovered that there was twelve untitled poems and a
  
  preface explaining the poets view of poetry and its purpose...