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Prose Works
Prose Works
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A memorandum at a venture
Death of abraham lincoln lecture
Two letters
Pieces in early youth
November boughs
Our eminent visitors
The bible as poetry
Father taylor (and oratory)
The spanish element in our nationality
What lurks behind shakspere's historical plays
A thought on shakspere
Robert burns as poet and person
A word about tennyson
Slang in america
An indian bureau reminiscence
Some diary notes at random
Some war memoranda
Five thousand poems
The old bowery
Islands—"specimen days in
Preface to "democratic vistas" with other papers
Abraham lincoln
New orleans in 1848
Small memoranda
Last of the war cases
Good-bye my fancy
American national literature
A death-bouquet
Some laggards yet
Memoranda
Walt whitman's last
LanguageEnglish
Publisheranboco
Release dateSep 1, 2016
ISBN9783736411937
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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819–92) was an influential American poet and essayist, and is credited with being the founding father of free verse. He first published his culturally significant poetry collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ in 1855 from his own pocket, and revised and expanded it over thirty years. It is an essential element of America’s literary tradition, much taught in schools and universities around the world.

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