About Walt Whitman

America’s first true poet.

In my life I was a typesetter and a reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle; during the terrible war that ripped our nation asunder I was a nurse and cared for the wounded in both Blue and Gray.

I wrote about my experiences of America and her people in works such as Specimen Days, Democratic Vistas, and The Leaves of Grass.

I loved men and women alike. I sang the song of the open road. I contained multitudes.

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