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10In Search of Walt Whitman, Part One: The Early Years (1819-1860)
In Search of Walt Whitman, Part One: The Early Years (1819-1860)
Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in Long Island and Brooklyn to write the masterpiece Leaves of Grass in 1855 that revolutionizes literature. Many of his most famous poems ...
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10In Search of Walt Whitman, Part Two: The Civil War and Beyond (1861-1892)
In Search of Walt Whitman, Part Two: The Civil War and Beyond (1861-1892)
The poet moves to Washington to care for injured Civil War soldiers but is disillusioned by the Gilded Age after the war. He recovers from a debilitating stroke to live out his days in ...