Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman has written at least 91 books. Their most popular book is Leaves of Grass with 357 saves with an average rating of 3.98⭐.
Author Bio
Walter Whitman (1819-1892) 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.
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).
After working as clerk, teacher, journalist and laborer, Whitman wrote his masterpiece, Leaves of Grass, pioneering free verse poetry in a humanistic celebration of humanity, in 1855. Emerson, whom Whitman revered, said of Leaves of Grass that it held "incomparable things incomparably said." During the Civil War, Whitman worked as an army nurse, later writing Drum Taps (1865) and Memoranda During the War (1867). His health compromised by the experience, he was given work at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. After a stroke in 1873, which left him partially paralyzed, Whitman lived his next 20 years with his brother, writing mainly prose, such as Democratic Vistas (1870). Leaves of Grass was published in nine editions, with Whitman elaborating on it in each successive edition. In 1881, the book had the compliment of being banned by the commonwealth of Massachusetts on charges of immorality. A good friend of Robert Ingersoll, Whitman was at most a Deist who scorned religion. D. 1892.
1856 • 36 Readers • 80 pages • 4.2
1855 • 14 Readers • 407 pages • 4
1982 • 14 Readers • 1,380 pages • 4.2
1901 • 9 Readers • 348 pages • 4.5
1892 • 8 Readers • 62 pages • 5
1985 • 5 Readers • 654 pages
1882 • 5 Readers
2018 • 5 Readers • 143 pages
1945 • 4 Readers • 648 pages • 5
2019 • 3 Readers • 192 pages
1855 • 3 Readers • 976 pages • 5
1995 • 3 Readers • 101 pages • 4
1872 • 3 Readers
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2014 • 2 Readers
1996 • 2 Readers • 496 pages • 3
1993 • 2 Readers • 336 pages
2002 • 2 Readers • 351 pages
1916 • 2 Readers • 186 pages
1855 • 2 Readers • 683 pages
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1882 • 2 Readers
1855 • 2 Readers • 573 pages
1995 • 2 Readers
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1892 • 2 Readers • 5
2018 • 2 Readers • 448 pages
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1892 • 1 Reader • 144 pages • 4
1855 • 1 Reader • 511 pages
1897 • 1 Reader • 43 pages • 4
1992 • 1 Reader • 1,132 pages
1988 • 1 Reader
1855 • 1 Reader
1856 • 1 Reader • 272 pages
2019 • 1 Reader • 183 pages
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1865 • 1 Reader • 161 pages
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2019 • 1 Reader • 146 pages
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1991 • 1 Reader • 32 pages
1865 • 1 Reader
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2018 • 1 Reader • 224 pages
1996 • 1 Reader
1852 • 1 Reader • 134 pages
2010 • 1 Reader
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1916 • 1 Reader • 185 pages
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1990 • 342 pages
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1994 • 231 pages
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1954 • 628 pages
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