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The poet moves to Washington to care for injured Civil War soldiers but is disillusioned by the Gilded Age after the war He recovers from a debilitating stroke to live out his days in Camden NJ, where he continues to write poetry

Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in Long Island and Brooklyn to write the masterpiece Leaves of Grass in 1855 that revolutionizes literature Many of his most famous poems are profiled