Author: Walt Whitman, edited by Louis Untermeyer,
Title: Walt Whitman: The Pamphlet Poets.
Description: np, Simon & Schuster, nd. VG PB. Whitman was born May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Long Island. When he was a child his father left the farm and the family moved. to Brooklyn. After a fitful schooling, young Whitman became a printer's apprentice. For 20 years he earned his living as printer, reporter, editorial writer, occasional critic and itinerant journalist. Undeterred by criticism from a comfortably established group in and around Boston, Whitman worked on his magnum opus Leaves of Grass. During the Civil War, Whitman served as nurse and wound-dresseer and in 1865 was given a position in the Dept. of the Interior. In 1866 Whitman's Drum Taps contained two of the most stirring elegies ever written. Whitman died attended by his faithful Boswell, Horace Traubel, in Camden, NJ, March 26, 1892. "His poetry achieves permanence because his medium is not words but elements.".

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