WALT WHITMAN 18191892

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WALT WHITMAN 18191892
POET AUTHOR EDITOR TEACHER PRINTER LONG ISLANDER
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BIRTHPLACE Huntington, Long Island
Walt Whitmans birth place is a historic site
that you can visit today!
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Places Named After Walt Whitman
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Whitmans View Of Poetry

• "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs
  him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
• -Walt Whitman
• Whitman believed there was a vital, symbiotic
  relationship between the poet and society.

Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman
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Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan
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Or the wonderfulness of the sundown
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WORKS CITED

• http//www.waltwhitman.org/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman
• http//www.trailsource.com/images/photos/HIKE/565x
  200/IMGP3939.jpg
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass
• http//cache.virtualtourist.com/1546929-Streets_of
  _Manhattan-New_York_City.jpg