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THE PORTABLE WALT WHITMAN

WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892) was born on Long Island and edu-

cated in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a printer’s devil, jour-

neyman compositor, and itinerant schoolteacher, edited the Long

Islander , and in 1846 became editor of the Brooklyn Eagle , a po-

sition from which he was discharged for political reasons. After a

period in New Orleans, he returned to Brooklyn and became

prominent among the bohemian element of New York. In 1855 he

published Leaves of Grass , which he continued to revise and re-

publish over his lifetime. The Civil War found him working as an

unofﬁcial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers in army hos-

pitals in Washington, D.C. After the war he became a clerk in the

Indian Bureau of the Department of the Interior, from which he

was shortly dismissed by the Secretary, who regarded Leaves of

Grass as an immoral book. He lived in Camden, New Jersey, dur-

ing his last nineteen years. He was particularly in the public eye

during these years, when such English writers as William Rossetti,

Algernon Charles Swinburne, J. A. Symonds, and Robert Steven-

son contended that Americans did not fully appreciate him.

MICHAEL WARNER is professor of English at Rutgers University.

His most recent works include Publics and Counterpublics (Cam-

bridge, Mass.: Zone Books, 2002), The Trouble with Normal:

Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (New York: The Free

Press, 1999), and American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin

Luther King (New York: Library of America, 1999). He is also

the author of The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the

Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America (Cambridge,

Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990); the editor of Fear of a

Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Minneapolis:

University of Minnesota Press, 1993); the editor, with Myra

Jehlen, of The English Literatures of America, 1500–1800 (New

York: Routledge, 1997) and, with Gerald Graff, of The Origins of

Literary Studies in America: A Documentary Anthology (New

York: Routledge, 1988). His essays and journalism have appeared

in The Village Voice, VLS, The Nation, The Advocate, POZ, In

These Times, and other magazines. He lives in New York.

The Portable

Walt Whitman

Edited with an Introduction by

MICHAEL WARNER

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First published in Penguin Books 2004

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892.

[Selections. 2003]

The portable Walt Whitman / Walt Whitman; edited with an introduction by Michael Warner.

p. cm. — (Penguin classics)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

I. Warner, Michael, 1958–

978-1-4406-1528-3

II. Title.

III. Series.

PS3203.W38 2003

811'.3—dc21

2003048734

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