TY - BOOK AU - Kaplan,Justin TI - Walt Whitman, a life SN - 0671225421 AV - PS3231 .K3653 1980 PY - 1980/// CY - New York PB - Simon and Schuster KW - Whitman, Walt, KW - Poets, American KW - 19th century KW - Biography KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - BIBINDX; Mickle Street -- Burial house -- "Mother, father, water, earth, me" -- "The shadow and the light of a young man's soul" -- "This is the city and I am one of the citizens" -- "The word final, superior to all ... what is it?" -- Manifest destiny -- Wonderland -- Phalanxes -- Illuminations -- "The beginning of a great career" -- "The ocean of life" -- Meteors -- "America, brought to hospital in her fair youth" -- Good gray poet -- Passages -- Timber Creek; Also issued online N2 - A biography of Walt Whitman providing insight into his childhood, relationships, career, and major written works. Focuses on the ways in which Whitman expressed his philosophies and ideologies in his everyday life and poetry. Includes several photographs taken from throughout Whitman's life ER -