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--The cause of death was mostly old age: Whitman’s lungs had collapsed, although he had suffered health problems for several years since his stroke in 1873.

--This was the man, who, as he says in Song of Myself,

"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

The song of myself begins with “I,” but it ends with “you.”"

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--May 1865. Whitman’s friend William Douglas O’Connor secures him a job at the Attorney General’s office, a post he holds until he leaves after he suffers a stroke in 1873.

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--Whitman saw Lincoln often, but the two never met face to face.

--“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d”

--“O Captain, My Captain”

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--Transcendent power of love, brotherhood, and comradeship.

--Imaginative projection into others’ lives.

--Optimistic faith in democracy and equality.

--Belief in regenerative and illustrative powers of nature and its value as a teacher.

--Equivalence of body and soul and the unabashed exaltation of the body and sexuality.

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--He writes Franklin Evans in 1842.

--Sold 20,000 copies,

more than any other

work Whitman published

in his lifetime.

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--1846-1848. Becomes chief editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, a post he holds from  March 5, 1846 to January 18, 1848.

--In May 1848, Whitman is fired because his politics conflict with those of the publisher. A “free soil” or “locofoco” Democrat, Whitman opposes the expansion of slavery into new territories.

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--Worked for several different newspapers

Wrote short fiction from 1841-1848

--Themes and techniques borrowed from Poe and Hawthorne

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--Parents had a Quaker background.
--Whtiman’s father had long been a follower of Thomas Paine

Radical  Quakerism of Elizas Hicks--anti-institutional, placing much emphasis on the inner light.

--Although the family moved to Brooklyn when Whitman was 4 and he lived in New York and Washington for much of his life, he often drew on Long Island and its seashore--calling the island Paumonok, the Native American name for the place.

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--Born 31 May 1819 near Huntington, Long Island, New York

--Second child (of 8) born to Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman.