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Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Gra…
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Born 31 May 1819 · Died 26 March 1892 · Q81438
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2026· 10 entries
Legacy obituary: Marybeth Whitman Obituary (2026) - Tupper Lake, NY - Frary Funeral Homes and Cremation Services - Tupper Lake
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NFHS Network: Field Hockey Live and Upcoming Games - Walt Whitman High School - Bethesda, MD
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NFHS Network: Quince Orchard vs Walt Whitman - Girls Varsity Soccer 09/25/2026 | Watch Live & On Demand
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NFHS Network: Football Live and Upcoming Games - Walt Whitman High School - Bethesda, MD
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Crónica del Poder: De Walt Whitman
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NFHS Network: Springbrook vs Walt Whitman - Boys Junior Varsity Football 10/03/2026 | Live & On Demand
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Albuquerque Journal: Meg Whitman, Albuquerque resident and ex-eBay chief, to lead Albertsons board
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“blacks, with about as much intellect and calibre (in the mass) as so many baboons.”
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“composite American identity of the future.”
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ice baths, rare steak and no masturbation: was Walt Whitman the first wellness influencer?
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Poet Walt Whitman wrote: "Be curious, not judgmental."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Poet Walt Whitman wrote: "Be curious, not judgmental."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: We need a new Walt Whitman to imagine a virtual public space | John Naughton
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The Guardian: What Is the Grass by Mark Doty review – Walt Whitman and me
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Walt Whitman: celebrating an extraordinary life in his bicentennial
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Walt Whitman's lost novel The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle found
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2016· 3 entries
The Guardian: Walt Whitman’s lost advice to America’s men: meat, beards and not too much sex
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The Guardian: Walt Whitman revealed as author of 'Manly Health' guide
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The Guardian: Volunteer finds letter written for dying soldier by Walt Whitman
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: from I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman
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2014· 2 entries
Composer John Zorn released On Leaves of Grass, an album inspired by and dedicated to Whitman
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German publisher Hörbuch Hamburg issued the bilingual double-CD audio book of the Kinder Adams/Children of Adam cycle, based on translations by Kai Grehn in the 2005 Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass (Galerie Vevais)
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2009).
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And, in 2013, he was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display in Chicago that celebrates LGBT history and people
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1997· 1 entry
The Walt Whitman Community School in Dallas opened, becoming the first private high school catering to LGBT youth
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1924· 1 entry
Edward Carpenter told Gavin Arthur of a sexual encounter in his youth with Whitman, the details of which Arthur recorded in his journal
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1919· 1 entry
“Quotes reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).”
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1904· 3 entries
“Wir, die beiden Ewigjungen, // Auf dem Lande und am Strande, // Wie die rechte Räuberbande! // Kein Respekt vor den Gesetzen, // Lachen, lieben, hauen, hetzen, // Schranken, Vorschriften verletzen: // Sammeln wir die Lebensbeute, // Wie zwei freie Jägersleute – // Bellt und kläfft auch rings die Meute!" - Wir zwei Knaben, Grashalme, Leipzig 1904, S. 140 zeno.org”
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“Weiß ich doch selber, so scheint mir' s oft, wenig oder nichts von meinem wirklichen Leben;// Nur ein paar Fingerzeige, einige zerstreute schwache Anhaltspunkte auf weiten Umwegen// Suche ich hier für mich selbst zu entdecken." - Grashalme, Inschriften, Das Buch, Übers. v. Wilhelm Schölermann, Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1904, www.zeno.org”
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“Und Leben, was dich betrifft, denk' ich, du bist das übrig Gebliebene von vielem Sterben, // Ohne Zweifel bin ich schon früher zehntausendmal gestorben). - Gesang von mir selbst, in: Grashalme. Übers. v. Wilhelm Schölermann, Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1904 zeno.org”
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1895· 1 entry
Doyle said: "We were familiar at once—I put my hand on his knee—we understood
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1892· 27 entries
Died 1892-03-26.
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At his home in Camden, New Jersey at the age of 72
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“Cuando yo doy, me doy a mi mismo.”
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“(Original engl.: "Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! - ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more!" - A Sun-Bath - Nakedness. Sunday, Aug. 27 . Prose Works 1892. Volume I Specimen Days. Edited by Floyd Stovall. © New York University 1963 Google Books)”
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“Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War", The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman (1892), volume 1, part I: Specimen Days.”
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“Complete Prose Works (1892), III. Notes Left Over 3. Ventures, on an Old Theme, p.324”
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“US-amerikanischer Dichter”
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“A mi juicio, el mejor gobierno es el que deja a la gente más tiempo en paz.”
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“Cada pulgada cúbica del espacio es un milagro.”
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“(en) The flashing and golden pageant of California,”
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“Ai giovani letterati voglio dare tre bei consigli: Primo, non scrivete poesia; secondo idem; terzo idem.”
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“The sudden and gorgeous drama, the sunny and ample lands,”
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“Auf ihrer höchsten Warte und in ihren erhabensten Schöpfungen ist echte Dichtung der Ausdruck und die Begleiterscheinung echter Religion." - Letzte Aufzeichnungen”
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“Calamus è parola assai usata da noi e designa tanto una pianta che il suo rizoma aromatico, con uno stocco alto tre piedi, cresce in tutti gli Stati settentrionali e centrali. Il senso simbolico, mistico che esso ha nel mio libro deriva probabilmente da questo fatto, che il Calamus presenta uno stelo erboso, grosso e robusto, ed è impregnato di un aroma soave, gradito, pungente.”
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“El poeta no gastará su tiempo en trabajos innecesarios. Sabrá que la tierra siempre está lista para arar y abonar.”
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“The long and varied stretch from Puget sound to Colorado south,”
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“El reloj indica el tiempo. Pero ¿qué es lo que indica la eternidad?.”
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“Lands bathed in sweeter, rarer, healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs,”
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“La misión de los grandes poetas es dar ánimos a los esclavos y aterrar a los déspotas.”
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“Senza dubbio ho meritato i miei nemici, ma non sono sicuro di aver meritato i miei amici.”
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“La literatura está llena de aromas.”
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“Uno scrittore perfetto potrebbe far sì che le parole cantino, ballino, bacino, portino bambini, piangano, sanguinino, s'infurino, pugnalino, rubino, cannoneggino, pilotino navi, saccheggino città, carichino di cavalleria o fanteria, o facciano qualunque cosa possano fare l'uomo o la donna o le forze della natura.”
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“Lo insignificante es tan importante como todo lo demás.”
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“Vi svelerò che i migliori soggetti letterari sono individualisti, lasciano uscire ciò che hanno dentro di loro, si danno una scossa completa e libero sfogo. Ciò è vero, specialmente in America, dove il pensiero non è ostacolato e gli uomini sono liberi.”
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“Lloré, y volveré a llorar con la constante primavera.”
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“(Original engl.: "And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, // (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before." - Song of Myself no. 49 - gutenberg.org)”
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“In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base", a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.”
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1890· 1 entry
Symonds wrote to Whitman: "In your conception of Comradeship, do you contemplate the possible intrusion of those semi-sexual emotions and actions which no doubt do occur between men
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1889· 1 entry
“Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV”
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1888· 4 entries
“Conversation with Whitman (July 16 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. II”
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“(Original engl.: "Of all portraits of me made by artists I like Eakins's best: it is not perfect but it comes nearest being me." - 1888, zitiert in: Alice A. Carter, "The Essential Thomas Eakins", H. N. Abrams : New York 2001, ISBN 0-8109-5830-9, S. 84)”
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Whitman commented in November Boughs:
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“Conversation with Whitman (16 May 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. I”
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1885· 2 entries
To serve as his housekeeper in exchange for free rent
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At the home of James William Wallace on Eagle Street in Bolton, England, to read and discuss the poetry of Whitman
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1883· 2 entries
“The Spanish Element in Our Nationality," letter to the Philadelphia Press (20 July 1883), later published in The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman (1892), part V: November Boughs”
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Celebrating the 333rd anniversary of Santa Fe, Whitman argued that the indigenous and Spanish-Indian elements would supply leading traits in the "composite American identity of the future
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1882· 1 entry
And later told the homosexual-rights activist George Cecil Ives "I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
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1877· 1 entry
“Köstliche, gesunde, stille Nacktheit in der Natur! O könnte die arme, kranke, geile Stadtmenschheit dich nur einmal wieder wirklich kennen lernen." - Tagebuch, 1877”
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1876· 1 entry
“Die schlimmste und verbreitetste Krankheit, die uns alle, unsere Literatur, unsere Erziehung, unser Verhalten zueinander durchseucht, ist die ungesunde Sorge um den Schein." - Tagebuch, 1876”
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1874· 2 entries
Was invited to write a poem about the Spiritualism movement, to which he responded: "It seems to me nearly altogether a poor, cheap, crude humbug
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In 1874, he was invited to write a poem about the Spiritualism movement, to which he responded: "It seems to me nearly altogether a poor, cheap, crude humbug." Whitman was a religious skeptic: though he accepted all churches, he believed in none.
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1871· 1 entry
The same year it was mistakenly reported that its author died in a railroad accident
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1865· 1 entry
George was released from capture and granted a furlough because of his poor health
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1864· 4 entries
Whitman's brother George was captured by Confederate forces in Virginia, and another brother, Andrew Jackson, died of tuberculosis compounded by alcoholism on December 3
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“the only [country] to whom we have ever really done wrong.”
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“Letter to his mother (22 March 1864)”
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That Mexico was "the only [country] to whom we have ever really done wrong
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1863· 1 entry
And, 12 years later, in a book called Memoranda During the War
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1862· 2 entries
With the intention of never returning to New York
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A listing of fallen and wounded soldiers at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the New-York Tribune included "First Lieutenant G
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1860· 1 entry
Again in 1867, and several more times throughout the remainder of Whitman's life
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1859· 1 entry
Though it is unclear whether he was fired or chose to leave
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1858· 1 entry
Whitman published a 47,000-word series, Manly Health and Training, under the pen name Mose Velsor
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1856· 1 entry
In his unpublished The Eighteenth Presidency, addressing the white men of the South, he wrote "you are either to abolish slavery or it will abolish you"
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1855· 3 entries
A few days after Leaves of Grass was published, Whitman's father died at age 65
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Was financed with his own money and became well known
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“The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.”
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1852· 1 entry
Serialized another, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, in six installments of New York's The Sunday Dispatch
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1848· 1 entry
After siding with the free-soil "Barnburner" wing of the Democratic party against the newspaper's owner, Isaac Van Anden, who belonged to the conservative, or "Hunker", wing of the party
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1846· 2 entries
Wrote that the abolitionists had, in fact, slowed the advancement of their cause by their "ultraism and officiousness"
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“Comments on baseball in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846), as quoted in Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (1950) by Florence Bernstein Freedman, p. 126-127”
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1842· 1 entry
Was editor of the Aurora and from 1846 to 1848 he was editor of the Brooklyn Eagle
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1839· 3 entries
“Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" (1839)”
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“Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" (1839); later delivered as a lecture at the Brooklyn Art Union (31 March 1851) and printed in the Brooklyn Daily Advertizer (3 April 1851)”
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“Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)”
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1819· 2 entries
Born 1819-05-31.
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In West Hills, New York, the second of nine children of Quaker parents Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, of English and Dutch descent respectively
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