2. Biography
● 31 may 1819 – 26 march 1892
● West Hills, Long island, Nova york
● American poet, essayist and journalist
● Transcendentalism and realism
● Rubén Darío, Wallace Stevens, León Felipe, DH Lawrence, Garcia
Lorca...
3. Work
● Franklin Evans (1842)
● Drum.Taps (1865)
● Memoranda During the War
● Specimen Days
● Democratic Vistas (1871)
● Leaves of Grass
● Leaves of grass (hojas de la
hierba)
● Revised and expanded to death
● Died at 72 age.
4. Legacy and Influence
● Mary Smith Whitall Costelloe
● Ezra Pound poet: “ Poetry of America...He is Amèrica. ”
● Andrew Carnegie: “ The great poet of America so far. ”
5. Others Aspects
● Religion:
- Deísm; He denied that any faith was more important than another.
● Sexuality:
- Homosexual or bisexual; it is not clear that Whitman had a sexual
relationship with another man, so biographers continue to debate.
● Whitman opposed the extension of slavery in the United States and
supported the Wilmot condicion, whose wanted to abolish slavery
in the new territories conquered.
