Walt Whitman
By Johnny Fink
Transcend-entalism
Whitman was also a poet and essayist
Realism
Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
The photo above, taken from Wikipedia, is Walt Whitman age 28
Beautiful Women was one of his Realist works
MLA Citations
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