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The final edition of Leaves of Grass was later nicknamed the Deathbed Edition, as Walt Whitman was nearing the end of his life at the time.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Walt Whitman a letter after reading Leaves of Grass where he wrote, "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom written by an American".

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The topic of his works included death and sexuality, which a lot of people were appalled of.

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In a four year period, Whitman was fired from seven different newspapers due to differences in opinions between him and his coworkers.

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--Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2016.
--"Walt Whitman Facts." Walt Whitman Facts. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2016.

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Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 to Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor. During the 1820s and the 1830s, he lived in Brooklyn and Long Island with his parents and eight other siblings. At the age of 17 in 1836, he began to work as a teacher and taught until 1841, where then he began to start a career as a journalist. During his years as a journalist, he founded the "Long-Islander" and the "Brooklyn Freeman".  He then began to develop a new tone of poetry as a journalist. During the Civil War, he lived a "purged" and "cleansed" life and published multiple works with his new found tone of poetry.  On March 26, 1892, Whitman was buried in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in Harleigh Cemetery.

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I exist as I am, that is enough.

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

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The major works of Walt Whitman include Drum-Taps (1865), Leaves of Grass plus other editions (1855), and Franklin Evans; Or The Inebriate (1842).