Water Profile: Walt Whitman “The Father of Free Verse”

Walt Whitman, often called the "father of free verse", was an American poet, essayist and journalist.  His writingreflects the era he lived in, the transitional period between transcendentalism and realism.  Whitman's major and most known work, Leaves of Grass, was self-published in 1855 but he continued to revise and add to it until his death in 1892.