Luckily, an opportunity arose to work on a newspaper in New Orleans. Having had some success – a novel and newspaper pieces – he became chief editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, but lost this position when his opposition to the spread of slavery clashed with the views of the newspaper’s owner. He worked by turns in Manhattan and Brooklyn as a printer’s apprentice, a schoolteacher and a newspaper publisher, before resolving to become a writer. His formal education ended when he was 11. He was born in 1819 and grew up in and around Brooklyn, moving often as his family tried to make money from farming and real estate.
Whitman’s life was interesting and varied. But the poetry many people now love won him notoriety before it won him fame. Celebrations will be especially joyful around his birthday on May 31 and in New York City, whose citizens were often depicted in his poems. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, America’s most admired poet.
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