Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"

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The paper explains that by the middle of the eighteenth century, the United States of America was well on its way to becoming its own nation. It had been independent for some time had begun to show innovation and entrepreneurship and had even fought multiple wars and conflicts and looked to expansion and even imperial holdings. Yet, the paper shows how despite its already rich history, despite even having the trappings of a traditional American folklore from the likes of Washington Irving, American seemed to still lack a classical and poetic tradition.

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"One poet, Walt Whitman, decided to set about remedying this problem, filling this void. With his groundbreaking poetical collection, "Leaves of Grass," Whitman not only strived to make his own name as a truly American poet, but also strived to create an actual American poetry, one which catalogued this relatively new world."

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