Born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills Long Island
- was the second of nine children in the family
- named after his father Walter Whitman
-mother was Louisa Van Velsor
-1823, the family moved to the city of Brooklyn
-family was constantly moving around Brooklyn because of bad investments
-their economic status also sucked balls
-Whitman’s father was strict and irritable
-he had no real affection towards him
-Whitman was very close to his mom though
-Whitman attended public school in Brooklyn
-he hated corporal punishment that was adopted in schooling
-corporal punishment: physical punishment; Like Ms. Massoudi whacking you with a stick for getting a wrong answer
-Whitman was somewhat influenced by Quaker thought
-Whitman left his formal education at age eleven
-first job as an office boy for two lawyers
-1831, he became an apprentice and printer’s devil for the Long Island newspaper called the Patriot
-At age twelve, he had already been contributing to the paper
-Whitman’s first signed article was in the New York Mirror in 1834
-he wrote about his admiration of the people alive who remembered how New York was as a small village
-1833, Whitman’s family left to the West Hills region
-Whitman was left behind
-a lot of his journalism and poetry dealt with the urban life in New York City, Brooklyn, and Long Island
-Whitman furthered his education by attending theatres and lectures and scavenged libraries around the area.
-two great fires in New York had burned down major printing centers
-1836, he moved in with his family in Hempstead because of financial trouble
-1838, Whitman tried to start up his own paper called The Long Islander, which would cover the towns around Huntington.
-he hired his younger brother George as an assistant, and put much effort into his paper, but it had collapsed within a year
-1841, Whitman worked at the New World
-1842, he was the editor of the Aurora
-1846 to 1848, he was the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle
-In the 1850s, Whitman focused on his education in the art of poetry
-1855, the first edition of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was published.
-The collection was to be mainly of American life and whatnot.
-He himself had paid for the collection to be printed in a local print shop, and a total of 795 copies of this edition were printed.
-Whitman often received praise from buyers of the book
-However, the book was sometimes criticized because of its seemingly offensive nature of poetry
-Whitman’s father died a few days after the book was published
-Throughout his life, Whitman revised and republished this book many times
-Whitman published the poem, “Beat! Beat! Drums!” as a patriotic gathering call for the North.
-This was around the time the Civil War broke out.
-On December 16, 1862, a list of fallen or wounded soldiers was published
-This worried Whitman, for his brother George Washington might have been one.
NO, NOT PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON. WHITMAN’S BROTHER GEORGE WASHINGTON.
WHITMAN’S FATHER NAMED THREE OF HIS BROTHERS AFTER AMERICAN LEADERS, WHO
WERE GEORGE WASHINGTON, ANDREW JACKSON, AND THOMAS JEFFERSON.
-Whitman traveled south in search of his brother
-he found him with a shallow wound on his cheek
-During his trip, he was affected by the sight of all the wounded soldiers with amputated legs
-Whitman left for Washington D.C. in December 28, 1862, intending on never returning to New York.
-In Washington D.C., Charley Eldridge helped Whitman obtain a job as a nurse in the army hospitals.
-1863, he published the “Great Army of the Sick”
-Douglas O’Connor got Whitman a job as a clerk in the Bureau of Indian Affairs
-he also published Drum-Taps, another collection of poems, mainly about the Civil War
-July 1, 1865 Whitman was moved to the Attorney General’s office on July 1, where he would interview former Confederate soldiers for presidential pardons
-January 1866, O’Connor published The Good Gray Poet, a pamphlet that defended Whitman as a wholesome patriot
-Whitman had also published “O Captain! My Captain!” in 1865, an extended metaphor poem about the death of President Abraham Lincoln.
-Both of these publications would further increase Whitman’s popularity and his name as a poet.
-In February 1868, Poems of Walt Whitman was published in England, which became highly popular there as well
-In 1867 and ‘71, two editions of Leaves of Grass were issued
-From the beginning of 1872, Whitman spent a majority of his time caring for his mother who was suffering from arthritis.
-Early 1873, Whitman suffered from a paralytic stroke
-he then moved to the home of his brother George in Camden, New Jersey.
-Their mother had been there when she died in May the same year
-For a great period of Whitman’s residence, he had remained in his brother’s house, publishing many works, including three more versions of Leaves of Grass
-Then in 1884, Whitman bought his own house since his brother had to move because of business reasons
-Around the same time Whitman had also started socializing with a woman named Mary Oakes Davis
-she moved in with him on February 24, 1885, to serve as a housekeeper in exchange for free rent, not for, well, other things
-In his new house, Whitman published more editions of Leaves of Grass in 1876, 1881, and 1889.
-Near the end of 1891, Whitman had arranged a final edition of Leaves of Grass which he nicknamed the deathbed edition
-On March 26, 1892, Whitman died of several lung problems, and was buried in the granite mausoleum of Harleigh Cemetery in Camden.
-I counted 8 editions of Leaves of Grass books in total, but there are numerous opinions on the number of definitive editions of this book.
-MJAY
- was the second of nine children in the family
- named after his father Walter Whitman
-mother was Louisa Van Velsor
-1823, the family moved to the city of Brooklyn
-family was constantly moving around Brooklyn because of bad investments
-their economic status also sucked balls
-Whitman’s father was strict and irritable
-he had no real affection towards him
-Whitman was very close to his mom though
-Whitman attended public school in Brooklyn
-he hated corporal punishment that was adopted in schooling
-corporal punishment: physical punishment; Like Ms. Massoudi whacking you with a stick for getting a wrong answer
-Whitman was somewhat influenced by Quaker thought
-Whitman left his formal education at age eleven
-first job as an office boy for two lawyers
-1831, he became an apprentice and printer’s devil for the Long Island newspaper called the Patriot
-At age twelve, he had already been contributing to the paper
-Whitman’s first signed article was in the New York Mirror in 1834
-he wrote about his admiration of the people alive who remembered how New York was as a small village
-1833, Whitman’s family left to the West Hills region
-Whitman was left behind
-a lot of his journalism and poetry dealt with the urban life in New York City, Brooklyn, and Long Island
-Whitman furthered his education by attending theatres and lectures and scavenged libraries around the area.
-two great fires in New York had burned down major printing centers
-1836, he moved in with his family in Hempstead because of financial trouble
-1838, Whitman tried to start up his own paper called The Long Islander, which would cover the towns around Huntington.
-he hired his younger brother George as an assistant, and put much effort into his paper, but it had collapsed within a year
-1841, Whitman worked at the New World
-1842, he was the editor of the Aurora
-1846 to 1848, he was the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle
-In the 1850s, Whitman focused on his education in the art of poetry
-1855, the first edition of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was published.
-The collection was to be mainly of American life and whatnot.
-He himself had paid for the collection to be printed in a local print shop, and a total of 795 copies of this edition were printed.
-Whitman often received praise from buyers of the book
-However, the book was sometimes criticized because of its seemingly offensive nature of poetry
-Whitman’s father died a few days after the book was published
-Throughout his life, Whitman revised and republished this book many times
-Whitman published the poem, “Beat! Beat! Drums!” as a patriotic gathering call for the North.
-This was around the time the Civil War broke out.
-On December 16, 1862, a list of fallen or wounded soldiers was published
-This worried Whitman, for his brother George Washington might have been one.
NO, NOT PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON. WHITMAN’S BROTHER GEORGE WASHINGTON.
WHITMAN’S FATHER NAMED THREE OF HIS BROTHERS AFTER AMERICAN LEADERS, WHO
WERE GEORGE WASHINGTON, ANDREW JACKSON, AND THOMAS JEFFERSON.
-Whitman traveled south in search of his brother
-he found him with a shallow wound on his cheek
-During his trip, he was affected by the sight of all the wounded soldiers with amputated legs
-Whitman left for Washington D.C. in December 28, 1862, intending on never returning to New York.
-In Washington D.C., Charley Eldridge helped Whitman obtain a job as a nurse in the army hospitals.
-1863, he published the “Great Army of the Sick”
-Douglas O’Connor got Whitman a job as a clerk in the Bureau of Indian Affairs
-he also published Drum-Taps, another collection of poems, mainly about the Civil War
-July 1, 1865 Whitman was moved to the Attorney General’s office on July 1, where he would interview former Confederate soldiers for presidential pardons
-January 1866, O’Connor published The Good Gray Poet, a pamphlet that defended Whitman as a wholesome patriot
-Whitman had also published “O Captain! My Captain!” in 1865, an extended metaphor poem about the death of President Abraham Lincoln.
-Both of these publications would further increase Whitman’s popularity and his name as a poet.
-In February 1868, Poems of Walt Whitman was published in England, which became highly popular there as well
-In 1867 and ‘71, two editions of Leaves of Grass were issued
-From the beginning of 1872, Whitman spent a majority of his time caring for his mother who was suffering from arthritis.
-Early 1873, Whitman suffered from a paralytic stroke
-he then moved to the home of his brother George in Camden, New Jersey.
-Their mother had been there when she died in May the same year
-For a great period of Whitman’s residence, he had remained in his brother’s house, publishing many works, including three more versions of Leaves of Grass
-Then in 1884, Whitman bought his own house since his brother had to move because of business reasons
-Around the same time Whitman had also started socializing with a woman named Mary Oakes Davis
-she moved in with him on February 24, 1885, to serve as a housekeeper in exchange for free rent, not for, well, other things
-In his new house, Whitman published more editions of Leaves of Grass in 1876, 1881, and 1889.
-Near the end of 1891, Whitman had arranged a final edition of Leaves of Grass which he nicknamed the deathbed edition
-On March 26, 1892, Whitman died of several lung problems, and was buried in the granite mausoleum of Harleigh Cemetery in Camden.
-I counted 8 editions of Leaves of Grass books in total, but there are numerous opinions on the number of definitive editions of this book.
-MJAY