... "the son of Walter Whitman, a carpenter and farmer, and Louisa Van Velsor," he was the "second of eight surviving children" in his family (Loving, American National Biography 1). Whitman received "only an elementary school education and at the age of eleven" and then was later taught to be a printer for the Patriot, Long Island's newspaper (Loving ... , American National Biography 1). During the time of the American Civil War "Whitman was a government clerk," meanwhile "he was also a volunteer assistant in the military hospitals" treating the injured and ... ...

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... to its value or inherent worth. The problem seems to be a common one where assessing values in history are concerned, in What is History? Carr asserts that history is "the biography of great men-, yet the definition for whom makes this category is surely subjective. It must be the same for literary works too, there is no necessity to ascribe to ... ...

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... of Andrew Werth in an article published in the Fall 1999 issue of the Oxfordian, "The relationship between author and work is indissoluble, and is a symbiosis ignored at tremendous cost. Biography provides a lamp where there is only darkness (Werth 5). ...

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