Having come from a poor family in Brooklyn, NY, Walter Whitman grew to be recognized as one of America's greatest poets. Whitman was born in 1819. His father, a carpenter and farmer, encouraged him to enter the labor force at an early age. At 12 he left school and carried various jobs as office boy and printer's assistant at local newspapers. Beginning in 1836, he began writing on various forums for the newspapers and this continued throughout his life. He began writing poetry in 1848 and published his fist volume, Leaves of Grass, in 1855. It included 12 of his moderately long free verse poems, but he later updated his version of Leaves of Grass to include more poems, revised poems, and a q
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