Yonnondio
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Yonnondio: From the Thirties is a novel by American author Tillie Olsen which was published in 1974 but written in the 1930s. The novel details the lives of the Holbrook family, depicting their strugg
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Walt Whitman
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Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman inc
Yonnondio
…factories fade; A muffled sonorous sound, a wailing word is borne through the air for a moment, Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost. From Walt Whitman's "Yonnondio" This is the opening quote, placed after the dedication page, of the novel. The first seven lines of Whitman's poem are removed (leaving…
Whitman in 1887
Whitman in July 1854, aged 35, from the frontispiece to Leaves of Grass from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison
Whitman's handwritten manuscript for "Broadway, 1861"
Whitman spent his last years at his home in Camden, New Jersey, which is open to the public as the Walt Whitman House.