Walter Whitman Walter Whitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, N.Y., on May 31, 1819, the second of six children. His father was a carpenter. Young Whitman tried many jobs. He was an office boy, printer, schoolteacher, reporter, and for a time the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle and other newspapers. At 30 he took a trip to New Orleans. He saw the vastness of his country for the first time, and he began to set down in poetry his impressions of the nation and its people. No publisher or author's name was on the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass' in 1855. Whitman printed it himself, and throughout his life he continued to publish expansions and revisions of the work. He sent copies of the first edition to well-known literary men. Some condemned the book, but Ralph Waldo Emerson saw its merit. In the 1856 edition Whitman printed Emerson's letter of praise, wh....

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