Leaves of Grass-The Death Bed Edition by Walt Whitman :: Reader Store

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and educated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer's devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers.


The title given to the last edition of Whitman's work, which he re-edited from 1867 until the day he died in the Mickle Street house in Camden, New Jersey. A total of eight different editions of the book were published, with the reworked poems added and removed from the book by Whitman over time.

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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

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