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One of the most treasured objects in the State Library of Victoria is the Whitman Cabinet, a special box, purpose built by the Australian man of letters Bernard O’Dowd to house his personal correspondence with Walt Whitman. Today we take a peak inside ...
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Walt Whitman -- giant of Americana, author of "Leaves of Grass" and portrayed in voice by Garrison Keillor in Ken Burns' "The Civil War" -- is celebrated today as a champion of individual freedom, the pleasures of the senses and a love of nature. Yet Whitman made a much different mark on our country during the Civil War, as a nurse's aide and hospice caregiver.
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On the Delaware River Port Authority's Walt Whitman Bridge, the eastbound lane adjacent to the far right eastbound curb lane is closed until further notice for deck removal and replacement. This Monday through Feb. 10, an adjacent eastbound lane ...
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Kids who drink are more likely to be victims of violent crime and sexual assault. Back in December 2011 an underage party bust took place at a Bethesda house. Usually they don't make headlines, but this one did because of an unusual move by the school's ...
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Two-time defending champion Walt Whitman (392 points), Walter Johnson (330), Montgomery Blair (196) and Bethesda-Chevy Chase (187) rounded out the six-team field. Walter ... was even swum,” Whitman coach Geoff Schaefer said.
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A community portal about Walt Whitman with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Walter Whitman was an American Romantic poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death, his works have been translated into more than 25 languages...more
A community portal about Walt Whitman with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Walter Whitman was an American Romantic poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death, his works have been translated into more than 25 languages. Whitman is among the most influential and controversial poets in the American canon. His work has been described as a "rude shock" and "the most audacious and debatable contribution yet made to American literature." He largely abandoned the metrical structures of European poetry for an expansionist freestyle verse—"irregular" but "beautifully rhythmic"— which represented his philosophical view that America was destined to reinvent the world as emancipator and liberator of the human spirit. As Whitman wrote in Leaves of Grass, "Rhymes and rhymers pass away—... America justifies itself, give it time..."
