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Walt Whitman Poems
Along with Emily Dickinson, Whitman is considered one of the most significant American poets. While not the first to write in this style, his prose-like form earned him the title of Father of Free Verse. Ezra Pound considered Whitman to be “America’s poet.”
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Song of Myself
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