Walt Whitman is the most untouchable, matchless author of the nineteenth century. His poems, which are written in free verse and cadence, are unique and innovative. In his collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, he allows the world see his soul, which is an easily achieved exertion to be personal with his readers. Whitman is a genius at setting words together to tantalize the senses. Whitman takes the world and writes it out for the human mind to indulge in. His incomparable eloquence and humor is never going to be recreated, though countless have already tried. Walt Whitman is truly the best author in all of literature history.