Whitman
Whitman is a surname, most famously associated with Walt Whitman, the 19th-century American poet whose *Leaves of Grass* revolutionized poetry with its free verse and democratic themes.
The name appears in place names and institutions honoring him: Whitman College, the Whitman Bridge.
As a surname, it derives from "white man" in Old English.
Whitman's expansive verse collection
- Song of MyselfExtended lyric celebrating individual identity
- free versePoetry without fixed structure
- bardicOf lyric poets
- American literatureU.S. written works
Transcendentalism · Civil War · Brooklyn · Camden · 19th century · literary canon · anaphora · cataloging
Sharing another's emotions
- dignityInnate personal worth
- democracyRule by the people
- equalitySame status for all
- brotherhoodKinship among men
individualism · compassion · body and soul · common man · inclusivity · optimism · sensuality · nature worship
Study of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- lineageDescent from progenitors
last name · patronymic · descendants · relatives · kinship · pedigree · forebears · nomenclature
Leaves of Grass
Whitman's expansive verse collection
- Song of MyselfExtended lyric celebrating individual identity
- free versePoetry without fixed structure
- bardicOf lyric poets
American literature · Transcendentalism · Civil War · Brooklyn · Camden · 19th century · literary canon · anaphora · cataloging · expansiveness
empathy
Sharing another's emotions
brotherhood · individualism · compassion · body and soul · common man · inclusivity · optimism · sensuality · nature worship · pluralism
genealogy
Study of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
lineage · last name · patronymic · descendants · relatives · kinship · pedigree · forebears · nomenclature
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
- New EnglandMaine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut
WhitmanEmily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot · Alexander Pope · Robert Frost · formalism · compression
WhitmanEdgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne · Herman Melville · Sylvia Plath · Cormac McCarthy · pessimism
WhitmanEmily Dickinson
self-effacement · introversion · reticence · T.S. Eliot · impersonality