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In Search of Walt Whitman, Part Two The Civil War and Beyond 1861 1892 2020 The poet moves to Washington to care for injured Civil War soldiers but is disillusioned by the Gilded Age after the war He recovers from a debilitating stroke to live out his days in Camden NJ, where he continues to write p

In Search of Walt Whitman, Part One The Early Years 1819 1860 2020 Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in Long Island and Brooklyn to write the masterpiece Leaves of Grass in 1855 that revolutionizes literature Many of his most famous poems are profiled