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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Original Language Walt Whitman
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Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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Emerson to Whitman, 21 July 1855, on receiving the first edition of Leaves of Grass.
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1855
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1. Wikipedia: Walt Whitman
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(; May 31, 1819, March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.
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Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819, March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse.
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Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819, March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1855
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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
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Leaves of Grass (Wikipedia)
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Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman.
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