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Also Known As	Walter Whitman
Born	May 31, 1819 • New York
Died	March 26, 1892 (aged 72) • Camden • New Jersey
Awards And Honors	Hall of Fame (1930)
Notable Works	“Calamus” • “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” • “Democratic Vistas” • “Drum-Taps” • “I Sing the Body Electric” • “O Captain! My Captain!” • “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” • “Sequel to Drum-Taps” • “Song of Myself” • “Specimen Days & Collect” • “Starting from Paumanok” • “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Movement / Style	American Renaissance