Title: Today in history
Description: Biographical sketch of Walt Whitman, American poet, journalist, and essayist. Provides information on his early employment in the printing trade; then he moved on to teaching to journalism and to working at the paymaster's office during the Civil War. Discusses his experimenting with a new form of poetry, which resulted in the publication of his most famous poetical work, Leaves of grass.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography
People: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Time periods: 19th century