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align="right"><td><i>Walt<br>Whitman</i></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> </table></td>  <td valign="top" align="left" width="10"><img src="/web/20070206144853im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/space.gif" width="10" height="1"></td>  <td valign="top" width="439" align="left"> <table> <tr valign="top"><td><font size="+2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#999966">Walt Whitman</font></b></font></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"><td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">181992, American poet, b. West Hills, N.Y. Considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, Walt Whitman celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man. His <i>Leaves of Grass,</i> unconventional in both content and technique, is probably the most influential volume of poems in the history of American literature.continue at <a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/65/wh/WhitmnW.html"><i>Columbia Encyclopedia</i></a>, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.</font></font></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"><td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Pronunciation: <a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/61/wavs/81/W0138100.wav"><img src="/web/20070206144853im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/pron.jpg" width="13" height="21" border="0" alt=""></a> <font face="Helvetica, Arial,sans-serif">hw<img border="0" align="absbottom" src="/web/20070206144853im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/pronunciation/ibreve.gif">t´m<img border="0" align="absbottom" src="/web/20070206144853im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/pronunciation/schwa.gif">n, w<img border="0" align="absbottom" src="/web/20070206144853im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/pronunciation/ibreve.gif">t´-</font> from <a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/61/82/W0138200.html"><i>The American Heritage<font size="-1"><sup>®</sup></font> Dictionary of the English Language</i></a>, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.</font></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td><form method="GET" action="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td valign="middle"><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Search:</b></font></td> <td>  </td> <td valign="middle"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><input type="text" size="17" maxlength="30" name="query"><input type="hidden" name="filter" value="colWhitmnW"></font></td> <td>  </td> <td valign="middle"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Go"></font></td></tr> </table></form></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"><td> <dl> <dt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>WORKS</b></font></dt> <dd> </dd> <dd><a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/142/">Leaves of Grass</a>. 1900. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">In 1855 Whitman published <i>Leaves of Grass</i> (later known as <i>Song of Myself</i>) in which the author proclaims himself the symbolic representative of common people.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dd><a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/229/">Prose Works</a>. 1892. <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The Good Gray Poet also contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with his war diaries, Prefaces and <i>Democratic Vistas.</i></font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dd><a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/39/45.html">Preface to Leaves of Grass</a> <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From the <a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/hc/"><i>Harvard Classics</i></a>, Vol. XXXIX.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dd><a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/100/503.html">Bartletts Whitman Quotations</a> <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.</font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dd>Whitman, Walt, <a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/66/61/63961.html">63961</a> to <a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/66/39/64139.html">64139</a> <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Entries from the <i>Columbia World of Quotations.</i></font></dd> <dd> </dd> <dd> </dd> <dt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>WRITINGS ABOUT WHITMAN</b></font></dt> <dd> </dd> <dd><a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/226/index.html#16">Whitman</a> <br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Chapter by Emory Holloway from the <a href="/web/20070206144853/http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/"><i>Cambridge History of American Literature</i></a>.</font></dd> </dl> <br> <br> <br> </td></tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <table align="CENTER" width="601" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">  <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td><table align="CENTER"> <tr><td align="CENTER"> 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