"Whitman’s writings reflect how deeply affected he was by the times in which he lived: Everything Whitman wrote centered around the notion of democracy" (Mead, 555).
"Walt Sr. was a farmer who used his carpentry skills during the city's building boom by moving the family to Brooklyn in 1823" (Kaplan, 56).
"Despite little formal education, Whitman was a voracious reader, and aside from the works of Sir Walter Scott, he read 19th-century novels and English Romantic poetry."
"Whitman remained a lifelong liberal, given the political liberalism and deistic faith shaped by the teaching of Quakerism" (Kaplan, 56).
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