Notes on Whitman's life

3. Whitman New York Around 1850

4. Whitman New Orleans 1848

7. Whitman Boston or DC Around 1860

9. Over the years Whitman published more editions of Leaves of Grass, adding more and more poems. Whitman is America’s greatest transcendentalist poet. Surprises in Whitman’s poetry were the use of lists and the free discussion of the human body.

12. Whitman said: The poetic quality is not marshaled in rhyme or uniformity, . . . but is in the soul.

13. Whitman New York 1878

14. Whitman With friends’ children 1879 New York

15. Whitman Canada 1880

16. Whitman Boston 1887