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Author: Laura Nelson Baker, Adrien Stoutenburg
First Published: 1968
Time of Work: 1819–1892
Setting: Long Island, New York City, New Jersey, New Orleans, New England, and Washington, D.C.
Principal Characters: Walt Whitman, Jeff Whitman, Louisa Whitman, William O’Connor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anne Gilchrist, Richard Bucke, John Burroughs, Peter Doyle, Charles Eldridge
Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
Subjects: Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, Poetry or poets, Writing, Individuality, Democracy, Biography
Locales: New York, NY, New Orleans, LA, Washington, D.C., Long Island, NY, New Jersey, New England

In Listen America: A Life of Walt Whitman, Adrien Stoutenburg and Laura Nelson Baker provide a chronologically structured account of the important events and personal relationships in Whitman’s long life. The book is divided into eleven “phases”; early chapters are more general and discuss the poet’s nature and inclinations, while later chapters become more focused on individual and formative events in the poet’s life. For example, chapter 1 (“A Child Went Forth”) deals with Whitman’s family history, immediate family, schooling, work,...

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