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WALT WHITMAN (1819-1891)

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From: Selections from American Poetry
Date: 20030101
Author:Margeret Sprague Carhart

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"Walt Whitman...the chanter of adhesiveness, of the love of man for man, may not be attractive to some of us....But Walt Whitman the tender nurse, the cheerer of hospitals, the saver of soldier lives, is much more than attractive he is inspiring." --W. P. TRENT.

Born on Long Island, he entered a printer's office when he was thirteen. By the time he was twenty, he was editing his own paper, but he soon gave it up for work on a New York newspaper. When he was thirty, be traveled through the west; in "Pioneers" we ...

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