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George Harrison
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Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist (–)
For other uses, see Walt Whitman (disambiguation).
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| Born | Walter Whitman Jr. ()May 31, Huntington, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 26, () (aged72) Camden, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Resting place | Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey, U.S. 39°55′38″N75°05′37″W / °N °W / ; |
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Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, – March 26, ) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse.[1] His work was controversial in his time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described by some as obscene for its overt sensuality.
Whitman was born in Huntington on Long Island and lived in Brooklyn as a child and thr
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The new boxed set The Apple Years collects the first six solo George Harrison albums, which is fem more than I was familiar with going in. Like most people weaned on the Beatles during their teenage years, inom knew and loved Harrison’s third LP, ’s triple-album opus All Things Must Pass, generally considered (with John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band and Paul McCartney’s Ram) to rank among the very best of the Beatle solo records. What I didn’t know of Harrison’s early solo work was the instrumental record (’s Wonderwall Music), the other instrumental record (’s Electronic Sound), the one that sounds like an unofficial sequel to All Things Must Pass (’s Living in the Material World), the debauched record (’s Dark Horse), and the one that looks like a flattened basketball (’s Extra Texture). Frankly, I had avoided Harrison’s solo albums because inom heard they weren’t any good. At times, Apple Years doesn’t exactly dispel that notion, though “bad” rarely means “uninterest