Walt Whitman [From the Philadelphia City Item]

Leland, Henry P. "Walt Whitman [From the Philadelphia City Item]." New-York Saturday Press. 16 Jun. 1860: 1.

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Leland exclaims that Whitman's unique voice and viewpoint on the individual and country is an act of creative destruction. It will change American poetry, leaving behind the banal imitations of classical poetry lesser men aspired to write.

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Whitman, Walt

Born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman spent his childhood and early adulthood amid the sights and sounds of New York City and its environs.

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