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Poems, by Walt Whitman

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Apr 15, 2022 • 19m

The rugged, genuine Lincoln was idealized by Walt Whitman - the founder of the new school of American poetry. Two of Whitman's finest poems were inspired by Lincoln. (Volume 42, Harvard Classics)

Lincoln died April 15, 1865.

 

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