![]() He remained, living with his brother until 1882 when his latest publication of Leaves of Grass earned him enough money to buy a house in Camden, where he remained, revising and adding to a new edition of his book and creating, Good-bye, My Fancy (1891) his final volume of poetry and prose. With much of his salary, modest royalties and even gifts and purses from other poets, he paid for supplies for the patients he cared for, and his mother and injured brother.Įarly in 1870, while visiting his dying mother at his brothers house in Camden, he suffered a stroke which prevented his return to Washington D.C. Whitman struggled financially throughout his life. He had taken a job as a clerk to the Department of the Interior, until being fired by the secretary of the Interior, who had found Leaves of Grass offensive. After seeing so many wounded in Washington, Whitman decided to stay and work in the hospitals, a stay which lasted for eleven years. to care for his brother who had been wounded. In 1862, during the civil war, he traveled to Washington D.C. He later went on to publish several more editions. In 1856, a second edition of the book was published, containing thirty three poems and the copy of a letter he had received from Emerson praising the first edition. In the autumn of 1848 Walt Whitman copyrighted the first edition of Leaves of Grass, which contained twelve poems, (each of which was untitled) and a preface which he published himself. He then became the editor of the New Orleans Crescent. He worked for several other newspapers including the Daily Eagle, until 1848. In 1836, at the age of seventeen, he became a teacher in a school in Long Island, until 1841, when he became a journalist and founded the Long Islander. When twelve, he went to work for a printer in New York city, which is where he found his love of the written word. Walt Whitman was the second child of nine living in Brooklyn. Walt Whitman is possibly the most influential American poet of his era, and his volume 'Leaves of Grass' has been the inspiration for untold numbers of other fine poets ![]()
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