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Walt Whitman

(1819 - 1892)

Walt Whitman became the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 but was fired two years later for his support of the antislavery Free Soil Party. Unable to find a publisher for the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855, he sold a house to pay for its printing; the book appeared without his name and fell on mostly stony ground. Ralph Waldo Emerson, however, pronounced it “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom” that America had yet produced.

All Writing

Voices In Time

1877 | Camden, NJ

Sweet, Sane Nakedness

Walt Whitman, liberated.More

Voices In Time

1891 | Camden, NJ

Ourselves Owning

Walt Whitman pairs off.More

Voices In Time

1882 | Camden, NJ

Natural Resources

Walt Whitman calls for fresh air in politics.More

Voices In Time

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Looking Up

Walt Whitman has a happy hour.More

Voices In Time

1863 | Chancellorsville, VA

Walt Whitman’s Still There

The battlefield at night.More

Voices In Time

1856 | Brooklyn, NY

Course of Nature

Walt Whitman and the body of love.More

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

Voices In Time

1862 | Falmouth, VA

All-Nighter

Walt Whitman tends to the wounded the best he can.More

Voices In Time

1861 | Virginia

Recording an Inkling of Civil War

Walt Whitman sees the blackness of the human heart.More

Voices In Time

1865 | Brooklyn

Parade Music

Walt Whitman’s paean to town and country.More

Voices In Time

1856 | Brooklyn

I Dare Not Withdraw

Walt Whitman’s amorous side. More

Voices In Time

1855 | Brooklyn

Be Not Curious

Walt Whitman looks beyond God.More

Voices In Time

1846 | Brooklyn

Playing Ball and Base

Walt Whitman praises a whole new ball game.More

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

Miscellany

Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dickens, Walter Landor Dickens, and Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens were among the names of Charles Dickens’ sons. Among the brothers of Walter Whitman were George Washington Whitman, Andrew Jackson Whitman, and Thomas Jefferson Whitman.