COMPLETE PROSE WORKS - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy

This is the Complete Proses of Walt Whitman - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy. Walt Whitman is generally considered to be the most important American poet of the nineteenth century. He wrote in free verse (not in traditional poetic form), relying heavily on the rhythms of common American speech. Childhood and early career Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children. His family soon moved to Brooklyn, where he attended school for a few years. Young Whitman took to reading at an early age. By 1830 his formal education was over, and for the next five years he learned the printing trade. For about five years, beginning in 1836, he taught school on Long Island; during this time he also founded the weekly newspaper Long-Islander. AXUM PUBLICATIONS 2010.