Author name: Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) is considered one of the most influential American poets, and is often called the father of free verse. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature.

In Memory of Thomas Paine

Walt Whitman / January 27, 1887

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In Memory of Thomas Paine by Walt Whitman Spoken at Lincoln Hall, Philadelphia, Sunday, Jan. 28, 1877, for 140th anniversary of T. P.’s birth-day. SOME thirty-five years ago, in New York city, at Tammany hall, of which place I was then a frequenter, I happen’d to become quite well acquainted with Thomas Paine’s perhaps most […]

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