Virtually every American poet has at some point engaged Whitman directly… “His (Whitman’s) impact on American literature over the past century and a half is incalculable. According to this 2017 article from the University of Rochester Newscenter: Indeed, Whitman’s poetry pervades not only American history, but our contemporary and pop culture as well. After all, that was the notion that had compelled me to include Whitman in our Transcendentalism unit in the first place.
According to this article on the Library of Congress webpage, “The publication of the first slim edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was the debut of a masterpiece that shifted the course of American literary history.” Based on that assessment, as an English teacher I can’t overlook the influence that Whitman made on the shaping of the American identity.
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