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Sep 2020
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SYMHC Classics: Walt Whitman, Poet of De...

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This episode is from 2017. Whitman is often touted as the best and most important poet in U.S. history, but he also worked as a teacher and a journalist. And his poetry career didn't start out particularly well.

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