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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is famous for his book Leaves of Grass. Leaves of Grass is complete volume of Whitman’s verse first published in 1855. Untaught and using the rhythm of speech and breath as his guide, Walt Whitman came to public grace during the Civil War, volunteering as a stretcher-bearer for wounded soldiers. To many Whitman is America’s national poet. Song of Myself and O Captain, My Captain, a poem Whitman wrote after Lincoln’s assassination, are some of his most famous work. (Add picture)

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irishgit (151)
02/06/2007
Very uneven. At his best his imagery and use of language is brilliant and inciteful.

At his worst he is trite, contrived and naive.

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dudewheresmycar056 (0)
09/19/2006
I think this guy just plain sucks PERIOD.

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oscargamblesfro (81)
08/16/2006
An enormously influential visionary, and a reasonable contender for the greatest poet this country ever produced. Sometimes he goes on too long, and sometimes he certainly meanders with his catalogues, but his poems about Lincoln's assassination, nature, places he had been to and people he had met, and his panoramic view of America, and indeed the world as a whole, with people of all sorts included, was an inclusive and big- hearted one, and although some may scoff at what the reality of such things really was or is, the sentiments, though possibly a bit naive or overly idealistic, were highly admirable.

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Djahuti (57)
08/16/2006
Although his work is uneven,the best of it stands with the very finest writing ever produced by an American.His glorious celebration of the individual,and his graceful marriage of the Human and the Divine is awfully hard to beat.

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Skizero (15)
03/17/2005
wildly uneven, but where I'm concerned Whitman will always be the voice for a passionate America in any age and time

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CapAnson (1)
07/25/2004
He reminds me of a gay Santa Claus.. Pretty darn good poet though..

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StanUzbeck (16)
09/27/2003
Now here's a show off. I know that I'm not a professor of literature, so my opinions may seem crude, but Whitman used WAY too many words. Most of his poems, get rid of the adjectives and they're readable. He has whole stanzas that are little more than a series of single words separated by commas. Anyone with a thesaurus could produce such work. He has a lot of really brilliant stuff, but a whole lot of his poems are completely unreadable because of his wordiness.

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entranger (0)
05/26/2003
Fantastic. Greatest American writer ever.

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Golgo Thirteen (0)
11/26/2002
I prefer "Ode to a Prostitute" myself. Check it out in Leaves of Grass, which is a work of genius by the way.

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oodie (0)
02/28/2002
one of the best rappers of the late 1980's walt's jams are always in my head--especially "song to myself" the production by a 12 year old shawn "p diddy" combs is masterful!

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