KnowraWalt WhitmanLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Walt Whitman, each with the reason it gives.All 16Broader topic 2Related 12Compared with 2Free verseRelated: His poems became a major precedent for later English-language free verse.BrooklynRelated: His Brooklyn journalism and poetry capture the city’s nineteenth-century civic life.Ralph Waldo EmersonRelated: Emerson’s praise helped bring Whitman’s Leaves of Grass to wider attention.The American RenaissanceRelated: Leaves of Grass recast poetic form and made the democratic self its central subject.Allen GinsbergRelated: Whitman’s long lines and democratic address offered a precedent Ginsberg consciously reworked.Fernando PessoaRelated: Whitman’s poetry influenced Álvaro de Campos, who also wrote under the name Alvaro de Campos.Jim JarmuschRelated: Paterson draws on Whitman’s poetry and shares its attention to an American city and ordinary life.Leaves of GrassRelated: He wrote and repeatedly revised the book across his lifetime.Korney ChukovskyRelated: Chukovsky translated Whitman into Russian and wrote criticism that introduced his work to Russian audiences.Theodore RoethkeRelated: Whitman’s influence informs Roethke’s bodily imagery and searching account of the self.Hart CraneRelated: Crane inherited Whitman’s ambition to make American experience the subject of a large poetic vision.O Captain! My Captain!Related: Whitman wrote the elegy as part of his response to Lincoln’s death.