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(2017· 湖北省枣阳市白水高中月考)
Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island, New York. Whitman received most of his education outside of the classroom. At the age of eleven, he worked in a law office as an office boy where he became interested in reading. He was soon reading the works of famous authors like William Shakespeare and Homer, and was well on his way to becoming one of America's most wellknown poets.
By the time Whitman was seventeen years old, he had already worked as a printer's learner, a worker, and a teacher. Though he disliked teaching, he excelled in
