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Photographic portrait by George Collins CoxGeorge Collins Cox; restoration by Adam Cuerden · Public domain

Walt Whitman

American poet whose extended verse connects observation with questions about the self and belonging. Read complete poems and attend to the changes between anthology wording and related editions.

1819 AD – 1892 AD · 170 collected ↗