Walt whitman context Flashcards
1
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childhood
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- born in long island
- printer, schoolteacher, reporter
2
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inspiration
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- travels through the American frontier
- admiration for Ralph Emerson - adovate of social reforms.
3
Q
civil war
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- worked as a clerk in washington
- visited soldiers in spare time, dressing wounds
4
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death
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- stroke in 1873
