Author:Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

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Walt Whitman

Works

• Leaves of Grass (1855-1891)

Individual Poems

• "Song of Myself"
• "O Captain! My Captain!"
• "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
• "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
• "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
• "I Hear America Singing"
• "Earth! my Likeness!"
• "This Is What You Shall Do"
• "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!"
• "Poem of Joys"
• "In Cabin’d Ships at Sea"
• "The Mystic Trumpeter"
• "I hear it was Charged against Me"
• "O Hymen! O Hymenee!"
• "On the Beach at Night"
• "America"

Works about Whitman

• “Whitman, Walt” by Rossiter Johnson in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Whitman, Walt,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889.
• "W. W." (1892) by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• William Peterfield Trent, “Whitman, Walt,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Whitman, Walter or Walt” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910. article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• “Whitman, Walt” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Whitman, Walt” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Whitman, Walt,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.
• Unlaunch'd Voices, An Evening with Walt Whitman — Copyrighted in the United States Keamy, Michael Z. A Play. Behemoth Media. 1998.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.