Walt Whitman
and the word is sites:
Emily http://www.bartleby.com/113/
Walt http://www.bartleby.com/people/WhitmnW.html
I'd start with Walt's best pickup line:
"I sing the body electric"
and Emily's
"I HEARD a fly buzz when I died;"
2007-02-04 13:29:38
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answered by Jason W-S 4
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I rather agree approximately Walt Whitman. Emily Dickinson had a distinctive form, yet i'm uncertain i could flow so a good distance as to assert she grew to become right into a forerunner of any variety of literary circulate.
2016-09-28 10:36:50
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answered by gloyd 3
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Emily Dickinson
Comprising 597 poems of the Belle of Amherst, whose life of the Imagination formed the transcendental bridge to modern American poetry
http://www.bartleby.com/113/Walt Whitman
1819–92, American poet, b. West Hills, N.Y. Considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, Walt Whitman celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man. His Leaves of Grass, unconventional in both content and technique, is probably the most influential volume of poems in the history of American literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
http://www.bartleby.com/people/WhitmnW.html
2007-02-04 13:37:11
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answered by nra_man58 3
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Dickinson was born 10 December 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she lived until her death from Bright's disease on 15 May 1886. There she spent most of her life in the family home that was built in 1813 by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. His role in founding the Amherst Academy in 1814 and Amherst College in 1821 began a tradition of public service continued by her father, Edward, and her brother, Austin. All the Dickinson men were attorneys with political ambitions; the Dickinson home was a center of Amherst society and the site of annual Amherst College commencement receptions. The effect of growing up in a household of politically active, dominant males can be heard in Dickinson's 1852 letter to her close friend and future sister-in-law Susan Gilbert during a Whig convention in Baltimore: "Why can't I be a Delegate to the great Whig Convention?--dont I know all about Daniel Webster, and the Tariff and the Law?" As the confidence and frustration of this letter attests, the Dickinson family tradition had prepared the poet for a life of political activity and public service, only to deny her that life because of her sex.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dickinson/bio.htm
Walt Whitman, arguably America’s most influential and innovative poet, was born into a working class family in West Hills, New York, a village near Hempstead, Long Island, on May 31, 1819, just thirty years after George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the newly formed United States. Walt Whitman was named after his father, a carpenter and farmer who was 34 years old when Whitman was born. Walter Whitman, Sr., had been born just after the end of the American Revolution; always a liberal thinker, he knew and admired Thomas Paine. Trained as a carpenter but struggling to find work, he had taken up farming by the time Walt was born, but when Walt was just about to turn four, Walter Sr. moved the family to the growing city of Brooklyn, across from New York City, or "Mannahatta" as Whitman would come to call it in his celebratory writings about the city that was just emerging as the nation’s major urban center. One of Walt’s favorite stories about his childhood concerned the time General Lafayette visited New York and, selecting the six-year-old Walt from the crowd, lifted him up and carried him. Whitman later came to view this event as a kind of laying on of hands, the French hero of the American Revolution anointing the future poet of democracy in the energetic city of immigrants, where the new nation was being invented day by day.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/whitman/bio.htm
2007-02-04 13:33:31
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answered by bAdgIrL™ 4
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Check out something like English Literature and I would google the two names. Go to the library.
2007-02-04 13:28:18
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answered by ACME 4
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