Walt Whitman
Author, Journalist, and Poet
Frank Sinatra - New York (Sinatra)...Heavyweight Champion of the World (back when that meant something). Ever since some pie-eyed Long Island dreamer declared himself "Walt Whitman, a cosmos, of Manhattan the son," the keenest, hungriest, most desperate sons and daughters have... In this article: Frank Sinatra, New York, Tommy Dorsey, Skitch Henderson, Jay-Z, Manhattan, Radio City, Carnegie Hall, The House I Live In, and United Nations |
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boston.com - Latest theater and arts news | 7 days ago
Holiday Preview: Theater Picks
A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS Paula Vogel ("How I Learned to Drive'') blends historical figures (Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Walt Whitman) with composite or fictional characters (an African-American blacksmith for the Union Army, a...
In this article: Charles Dickens, Boston, A Christmas Memory, Ghost of Christmas Present, Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Dylan Thomas
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San Jose Mercury News | November 20, 2009
'A Civil War Christmas' captures suffering and hopes of an era like our own
...play, she weaves a richly detailed musical tapestry connecting the famous, from John Advertisement Wilkes Booth to the poet Walt Whitman, with the anonymous, such as a slave who saves enough money to send her boy to college, only to...
In this article: TheatreWorks, Christmas Eve, Civil War, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Paula Vogel
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Arizona Daily Star | November 19, 2009
Cake is only thing missing from TSO anniversary bash
...Thursday at Tucson Music Hall. The concert, featuring the world premiere of former TSO Conductor Frederic Balazs' ' "Song - After Walt Whitman" with the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, repeats 8 p.m. Friday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Music...
In this article: Robert Schumann, Depression, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and Claude Debussy
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U.S. News & World Report | November 19, 2009
President Obama v. Sarah Palin--As Different As Hawaii and Alaska
...pro-gun politics might be seen as a bit extreme. But we Americans defiantly contain multitudes and contradictions. Poet Walt Whitman, how right you are. Truly these faraway states, Hawaii and Alaska, can claim they have come of...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Alaska, Hawaii, John McCain, Democracy, All rights reserved, Dreams from My Father, Democratic presidents, and John F. Kennedy
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A historical holiday
...is populated, "Ragtime''-style, with familiar historical characters (Abraham Lincoln, members of his Cabinet, John Wilkes Booth, Walt Whitman, Clara Barton, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant) and characters who are...
In this article: Paula Vogel, Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and Ken Cheeseman
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FT.com - Arts & Weekend | November 14, 2009
David Hockney at Nottingham Contemporary
...19th-century poetry, is a masterpiece of sexual and artistic subversion. The title, and the verses inscribed on the canvas, come from Walt Whitman, poet and prophet of homosexual expressiveness. The blocky kissing figures on spindly legs,...
In this article: David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, Nottingham Contemporary, Constantine Cavafy, New York, Charcoal, Nottingham, Living Doll, and The Rake's Progress
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The State | November 13, 2009
Choosing the best Southern novels of all time
"It started off as a minor project for Foote and became the work and monument of a lifetime. Its three volumes disproved Walt Whitman's prophecy that 'the real war will never get in the books.'" "A profound exploration of race and...
In this article: William Faulkner, Oxford American, Go Down, Moses, Harper Lee, Walker Evans, All the King's Men, Moby-Dick, and Mark Twain
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The Huffington Post | November 07, 2009
Regina Weinreich: Remembering Tennessee Williams
...will prevail." On Sunday, Tennessee Williams will be inducted into the Poet's Corner, among Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, and other American literary giants, becoming the first...
In this article: Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois, Eli Wallach, Orpheus Descending, Not about Nightingales, Vieux Carre, Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and Emily Dickinson
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washingtonpost.com | November 03, 2009
Paul Farhi on pop culture: Dying not a bad career move
...American culture is apparently fair game for commercialization. It seems to me that if you know enough about Walt Whitman or James Dean to recognize them in ads, you know enough to distinguish between their virtues and the virtues of the...
In this article: Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, DirecTV, Levi Strauss, Elvis Presley, Fred Astaire, and Billy Martin
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BBC News | November 03, 2009
Brokeback author donates papers
...Bulldust Mountain and Swill-Swallow Mountain. Proulx added that it would be an "honour" to be in the company of authors including Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, whose papers are already housed in the library. Will US votes signal turn in...
In this article: Annie Proulx, Mark Twain, Brokeback Mountain, Oscars, US, and New York
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Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.
Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War in addition to publishing his poetry. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey where his health further declined. He died at age 72 and his funeral became a public spectacle.
Whitman's sexuality is often discussed alongside his poetry. Though biographers continue to debate his sexuality, he is usually labeled as either homosexual or bisexual. It is not clear if Whitman had sexual relationships with men. Whitman was concerned with politics throughout his life. He supported the Wilmot Proviso and opposed the extension of slavery generally, but did not believe in the abolitionist movement.
- Birth Date:
- May 31, 1819
- Birthplace:
- Huntington Long Island, New York
- Death Date:
- March 26, 1892
- Place of Death:
- Camden, New Jersey
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