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| | Whitman, Walt on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Whitman left school in 1830, worked as a printer's devil and later as a compositor. |
| | Leaves of Grass was criticized because of Whitman's exaltation of the body and sexual love and also because of its innovation in verse form—that it, the use of free verse in long rhythmical lines with a natural, "organic" structure. |
| | Indeed, Whitman's early biographers John Burroughs and R. Bucke were so affected by the robust "I" of Whitman's poems and by the poet himself that they depicted him as a rowdy, sensual man, a great lover of women, and the father of several illegitimate children. |
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