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    Birth: 31st May 1819 - Birthplace: West Hills, Long Island, New York

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    -Birth: 31st May 1819

    -Birthplace: West Hills, Long Island, New York

    -Death: 26th March 1892


    -Death place: Candem, New Jersey

    -Parents: Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman


    -Siblings: 8
    -Social class: middle (downwards)
    -Formal schooling: completed (aged 11)

    -Religion: Deism
    -Bad habits: alcohol, later in life.
    -Sexuality: bisexual or homosexual? Peter Doyle and Bill Duckett.
    -Children: probably many out of wedlock.

    -Occupation: journalist, teacher, government clerk, volunteer nurse, and poet.


    -Important achievements: father of the free verse
    -Major work: Leaves of Grass

    -Themes in poetry: democracy, individualism, body and soul, the natural world, war,
    eroticism.

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