The display, which will occupy the central portion of the larger “American Treasures” exhibition, will be on view from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Saturday, in the Southwest Gallery of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., through Dec. 3. During his lifetime, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) repeatedly altered his persona and revised his writing in reaction to the changing world around him. The exhibit is divided into sections that follow the development of Whitman’s life and careers—from “Journalist and Teacher,” “Leaves of Grass” and “Wound Dresser in the Civil War” to “Poet of the Nation,” “Sage” and finally “Legend.” Beginning in 1855 and continuing until he died, Whitman published nine different editions, plus variants, of “Leaves of Grass.”
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