Book Of Walt Whitman: Time In Washington D.C, His Contribution To The Poem World

Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.
Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to Washington at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union officer wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Eventually, Whitman would serve as a volunteer hospital missionary-making more than six hundred hospital visits and serving over eighty thousand sick and wounded soldiers in the next three years...
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