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Walt Whitman
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Poet, author of Leaves of Grass, self-published in Brooklyn on 4 July 1855. Emerson wrote to him after reading the first edition, praising it as the beginning of a great career; Whitman printed the letter, without permission, in the New York Tribune and in later editions of the book.
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Emerson to Whitman, 21 July 1855, on receiving the first edition of Leaves of Grass.
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1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1855
Influenced By: Ralph Waldo EmersonQuote, Influenced By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Princeton University PressAssociated With: The Elegy
Leaves of Grass (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWorks Attributed: Leaves of Grass, Lead section, authorshipQuote, Works Attributed: Leaves of Grass, Lead section, authorship
Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman.
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