Walt Whitman Romanticisim by Nick Perez

By nickperez_16

  • whitman; fact about genre

    romanticism period begins

  • whitman; fact about other author

    Frankenstein was published by Mary Shelley (Influenced different aspect of thought)

  • whitman ; fact

    whitman is born
  • Period: to

    born-death

  • whitman; facts about other author

    Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes "The Triumph of Life"

  • whitman; fact about other author

    Mendelssohn demonstrates his literary potential through the novel entitled, Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, while Goethe highlights the emotion of romance through his novel, The Sorrows of the Young Werther.

  • whitman; fact about other author

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame is published by Victor Hugo and Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley brings out Frankenstein. In the field of visual art, Malford Wiliam Turner creates numerous paintings depicting the natural environment.

  • Whitman; fact

    He finds work as an office boy, and then apprentices as a printer for a local newspaper. In 1833, his family moves back to Long Island.

  • whitman ; fact

    Whitman works at several newspapers in Brooklyn, Long Island and New York City.

  • whitman; fact about other author

    Emerson publishes "Nature"

  • whitman; fact about other author

    Dickens publishes Oliver Twist

  • whitman ; fact

    Whitman teaches school on Long Island. He stops teaching from 1838-39 to publish a weekly newspaper, the Long Islander.

  • whitman; fact about genre/other author

    Emerson/Thoreau lead the Romantic movement with their essays

  • whitman ; fact about works

    Whitman moves back to New York City to work as a printer. He also begins publishing fiction and poetry, as well as journalistic pieces, in newspapers and journals. In 1842 his didactic temperance novel, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate, appears in print. He stakes out radical positions on labor issues, women's property rights, capital punishment and immigration -- putting him in near constant opposition to society's prevailing sentiments. In just four years in Manhattan, Whitman works briefly at

  • whitman; fact about other author

    Henry David Thoreau published A Week on the Concord and the Merrimack Rivers

  • whitman ; fact about works

    Brooklyn printer Andrew Rome prints the first edition of Leaves of Grass. (There is no credited author, although Whitman is named in a poem and is credited on the copyright page.) Whitman himself helps set some of the type.

  • whitman ; fact about works

    Whitman writes for Life Illustrated, and publishes a second edition of Leaves of Grass.

  • whitman; fact about other author

    The third edition of Leaves of Grass is published in Boston. In Massachusetts to see his new publisher, Whitman also visits with his literary hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  • whitman; fact about gener

    Finding he has a talent and desire to give comfort to wounded soldiers, Whitman relocates to Washington, D.C. and makes the rounds of the local military hospitals. He gets a part time job at the Army Paymaster's Office to pay for his modest rented room.

  • whitman ; fact about work

    Whitman publishes his fourth edition of Leaves of Grass.

  • whitman; fact about works

    After a move back to Brooklyn, Whitman publishes the fifth edition of Leaves of Grass, Democratic Vistas, and Passage to India; all are dated 1871.

  • whitman; fact

    whitman dies