Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln
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title:
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln
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The American poet Walt Whitman greatly admired Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and was deeply affected by his assassination, writing several poems as elegies and giving a series of lectures on Lincoln. The two never met. Shortly after Lincoln was killed in April 1865, Whitman hastily wrote the first of his Lincoln poems, "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day". In the following months, he wrote two more: "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd". Both
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Relationship between 19th century poet and politician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman_and_Abraham_Lincoln
date created:
2021-01-07T15:57:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T15:52:36Z
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