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美国浪漫主义诗歌：华尔特·惠特曼、艾米莉·狄金森 Walt Whitman (1819 –1892) an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist He was a part of the transition between transcendentalism(超验主义) and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. Free Verse 自由体 Free verse is also known as “open form” verse. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme Whitmans life He was born in l8l9 into a working-class family and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Son of a carpenter, Whitman left his schooling for good at eleven, and became an office boy. Later on he changed several jobs, one of which was in the printing office of a newspaper, which would be of great help in his literary career. By this early age he had already shown his strong love for literature, reading a great deal on his own, especially the works of Shakespeare and Milton, and developed his potential for the writing career in the future. Before he was l7 years old he had already had his poems printed on a paper, although these early works were not comparable to his later and mature ones. However, Whitman did not become a professional writer directly henceforth, until an opportunity came up which sent him back to New York City, where he formally took up journalism and indulged himself in the excitement of the fast-growing metropolis. Feeling compelled to speak up for something new and vital he found in the air of the nation, Whitman turned to the manual work of carpentry around l85l or l852, as an experiment to familiarize himself with the reality and essence of the life of the nation. At the same time, he widened his reading to a new scale and made it more After enriching himself simultaneously by these two very different approaches, Whitman was able to put forward his own set of aesthetic principles. Leaves of Grass was just the expression of these principles. Whitmans democratic ideals W