As a place, it existed in my imagination long before I ever went there thanks to [Walt] Whitman and [Hart] Crane.
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Faulkner, Whitman, and Dickinson did not labor in vain; their books live on, horizontally, stacked like bricks in a display case.
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But in 2013, Whitman was one of more than 75 prominent conservatives who signed a legal brief opposing Prop 8.
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He could recite reams of Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, and Lowell, and he did so while I stood there, amazed.
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The kind of description and attention to detail that Whitman employs is what puts the “literary” in literary journalism.
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And we say, the Whitman massacre is the result of that influence.
A History of Oregon, 1792-1849|William Henry Gray
Mrs. Whitman joined the Presbyterian Church when a young girl of eleven.
How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon|Oliver W. Nixon
Dr. Whitman gave the Chiefs a reprimand, and called it thieving, and demanded that they send back everything they had taken.
How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon|Oliver W. Nixon
Whitman was as one crying in the wilderness, uncouth, unheeded save by the few.
A History of American Literature Since 1870|Fred Lewis Pattee
The questions which Whitman puts to him who would be an American poet may fairly be put to himself.
Whitman|John Burroughs
British Dictionary definitions for Whitman
Whitman
/ (ˈwɪtmən) /
noun
Walt (er). 1819–92, US poet, whose life's work is collected in Leaves of Grass (1855 and subsequent enlarged editions). His poems celebrate existence and the multiple elements that make up a democratic society