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Walt Whitman, Angela De Hoyas, Langston Hughes
Walt whitman, Angela De Hoyas, Langston Hughes. All great authors of many great poems. Wonder how they stack up against each other? Well that’s what’s going to happen. How do all three of these poets are different an alike. Three people, three different types of pens. Three different types of handwriting. Walter (Walt) whitman is an american poet, essayist, and a journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Was born May 13th, 1819. Lived in Brooklyn and Long Island in the 1820s and 1830s. Whitman spent his declining years working on additions and revisions to a new edition of the book and preparing his final volume of poems and prose, Good-Bye, My
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