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Walt Whitman Remembers the Ladies

In both poetry and prose Walt Whitman envisions an America in which men and women are seen as equals. In an early draft (1847) of Leaves of Grass he wrote, “I am the poet of women as well as men / The woman is not less than the man.” Those lines did not make it into the first printing (1855), but…
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