His father, Walter Whitman, was a farmer and carpenter; his mother, Louisa Van ... we get back to the 17th century, when we come to Abijah Whitman, a clergyman, ... The book did not attract the attention of the critics and the reading public until a ... Whitman never married, never left America, never laid up, or aimed to lay up, ... www.nndb.com |
Walter Whitman Sr. was of English stock, and his marriage in 1816 to Louisa .... he developed the habit of close observation of the ever-shifting panorama of the ..... Whitman's was poetry that would literally get the country in shape, Emerson ... www.english.illinois.edu |
Walter Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Town of ..... He did not get out at the end of the trip—in fact went all the way back with me. ... on the conventions of a marriage portrait", part of a series of portraits of the poet with his ... en.wikipedia.org |