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Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Whitman, Walt. A celebrated American poet; born at West Hills, Long Island, May 31, 1819; died at Camden, NJ, March 26, 1892. He published: ‘Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times’ (1842); ‘Voices from the Press: A Collection of Sketches, Essays, and Poems, by Practical Printers’ (Walt Whitman, Woodworth, Willis, Bayard Taylor, and others) (1850); ‘Leaves of Grass’ (1855); enlarged in successive editions, ‘Drum Taps’ (1865); ‘Passage to India’ (1871); ‘Democratic Vistas’ (1871); ‘After All Not to Create Only’ (1871); ‘As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, and Other Poems’ (1872); ‘Memoranda during the War’ (1875); ‘Two Rivulets’ (1876), including poems previously printed; ‘Specimen Days and Collect’ (1882–83); ‘November Boughs’ (1888); ‘Leaves of Grass, with Sands at Seventy and a Backward Glance o’er Traveled Roads’ (1889); ‘Good-bye, My Fancy’ (1891). The ‘Complete Works’ (1897–98) are published under the supervision of Whitman’s literary executors. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).