Walt Whitman
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| Rođenje | 31. 5. 1819. Huntington, NY, SAD |
| Smrt | 26. 3. 1892. (dob: 72) Camden, NJ, SAD |
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| Zanimanje | pjesnik, kritičar, novinar |
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| Književne vrste | poezija |
| Jezik | engleski |
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Walt Whitman (Huntington, 31. maj 1819 — Camden, 26. mart 1892), je bio američki pesnik.
Rođen je kao drugo dijete u mnogbrojnoj porodici Waltera Whitmana starijeg (1789–1855) i Louise Van Velsor (1795–1873). Njegova porodica je spadala u rane doseljenike u SAD. U mladosti je živeo nemirnim životom menjajući mnoge poslove. Sam štampa svoje glavno delo, poznatu knjigu pesama Vlati trave, koja se posle pojavila u mnogim izdanjima, na mnogim jezicima. Piše joj predgovor, u kojem iznosi zahteve za novom američkom književnošću. Vlati trave je zbirka pesama u slobodnom stihu, koja na snažan način slavi individualizam Amerike, demokratiju i bratstvo među ljudima, te živo i ushićeno opisuje američki život, posebno New York. Delo je proglašeno nemoralnim zbog slobodne obrade polnog života, pa pesnik biva neshvaćen od savremenika. Međutim, moderna kritika ga smatra jednim od najvažnijih stvaralaca u istoriji američke književnosti.
Mnogi biografi tvrde da je bio homoseksualac ili biseksualac.
- Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times (1842)
- The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier (1846)
- Life and Adventures of Jack Engle (1852)[1]
- Leaves of Grass (18551, 18917)
- Manly Health and Training (1858)[2]
- Drum-Taps (1865)
- Democratic Vistas (1871)
- Memoranda During the War (1876)
- Specimen Days (1882)
- The Wound Dresser (pisma, 1898)
- ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (February 20, 2017). „In a Walt Whitman Novel, Lost for 165 Years, Clues to Leaves of Grass”. The New York Times.
- ↑ [https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/wwqr/issue/10268/info/ Walt Whitman’s Newly Discovered "Manly Health and Training", Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 33, izd. 3/4, 2016.
- Callow, Philip. From Noon to Starry Night: A Life of Walt Whitman. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1992. ISBN 0-929587-95-2
- Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. ISBN 0-671-22542-1
- Loving, Jerome. Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0-520-22687-9
- Miller, James E., Jr. Walt Whitman. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. 1962
- Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. ISBN 0-679-76709-6
- Stacy, Jason. Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4331-0383-4
- Volt Vitman — biografija i odabrane pesme
- Walt Whitman na Projektu Open Directory
- Walt Whitman: Online Resources at the Library of Congress
- The Walt Whitman Archive includes all editions of "Leaves of Grass" in page-images and transcription, as well as manuscripts, criticism, and biography
- Poets.org – Biography, related essays, poems, and reading guides from the Academy of American Poets
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online. Brooklyn Public Library. Arhivirano 2014-02-25 na Archive.is-u
- Walt Whitman collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
