Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers.
The title given to the last edition of Whitman's work, which he re-edited from 1867 until the day he died in the Mickle Street house in Camden, New Jersey. A total of eight different editions of the book were published, with the reworked poems added and removed from the book by Whitman over time.
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"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
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