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With its free verse form that abandoned traditional metrical systems and regular patterns of rhyme, Leaves of Grass dramatically altered the history of poetry in English and made Walt Whitman the most famous and influential poet in American literature.
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quicksand years, restorative nostalgia, democratic compassion, poetic catalogues, deathbed edition, hounded slave, agonistic arena, cradle endlessly rocking, fitful flame, noiseless patient spider, temperance novel, good gray poet, moving panorama, early journalism, democratic individual, lunar light, syntactic parallelism
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Walt Whitman, New York, Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days, United States, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Long Island, Oxford University Press, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Iowa City, Children of Adam, Dooryard Bloom'd, Harvard University Press, Independence Day, University of Iowa Press, Ralph Waldo, Sing the Body Electric, Franklin Evans, Horace Traubel, Cambridge University Press, Chants Democratic, Gay Wilson, Clear Midnight, Enfans D'Adam, University of Chicago Press
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