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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Potteryplease, post: 9795915, member: 16407&quot;]Whitman is America&#039;s greatest poet. Agreed. Emily Dickinson is a close second. Both weirdos, both radicals, both forever changed poetry in America and beyond, Walt in overt and highly publicized ways, Emily in her quiet, to-be-discovered-later ways.</p><p><br /></p><p>When WW&#039;s book Leaves of Grass was first published on July 4, 1855 (an act of declaring independence from traditional form and content) there was only one positive review. Turned out that Whitman himself had written it under a pseudonym.</p><p><br /></p><p>My son&#039;s middle name is Whitman.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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