Biography of Walt Whitman

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Thesis I. Walt Whitman is an American poet, journalist, and essayist whose Versace collection Leaves of Grass is a landmark in the history of American literature. Introduction II. He was born to a family that settled in North America in the first half of the 17th century. Also his family had owned a large tract of land. Therefore his family didn’t have it all they were not poor either. They were an average family. Body Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills Long Island N.Y... In 1823 they moved to Brooklyn. When he moved to Brooklyn he attended a public school. He started working at the age of twelve. While working he learned the printing trade. After he finished school he begins to teach in country schools on Long Island and became a journalist. By the time he was twenty three he edited a daily newspaper in New York and he was a fairly important newspaper of the time. Also he spent thirty six years observing New York City and Long Island. Walt had started experimenting new styles of poetry. When he published newspapers and poems they didn’t show any literary promise. ...

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