Walt Whitman, most famous for his poetry collection Leaves of Grass has been called “America’s poet”, “the great poet of America” and America’s first “poet of democracy”. While controversial for his time, he is now considered one of the most influential of all American poets. It was best put when his British friend Mary Smith Whitall Costelloe, wrote “You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without Leaves of Grass…”
What poet is known as America’s first “poet of democracy”?
Walt Whitman, most famous for his poetry collection Leaves of Grass has been called “America’s poet”, “the great poet of America” and America’s first “poet of democracy”. While controversial for his time, he is now considered one of the most influential of all American poets. It was best put when his British friend Mary Smith Whitall Costelloe, wrote “You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without Leaves of Grass…”