Controversial American poet whose experiments in radically new forms of poetry blended rhythmic rambling with mystic imagery and celebrated his thoughts on man and society. His masterpiece, Leaves of Grass, led to his dismissal from a job as a clerk in the US Department of Interior because of the book’s reputed scandalously explicit sexual references. Vintage sepia 4.25 x 7 photo of Whitman seated in a coat and hat apparently lost in thought, signed in black ink, “Walt Whitman, born May 31, 1819.” Caption at bottom reads, “Photo’d from life, Sept., ‘72 by G. F. E. Pearsall, Fulton St.” In fine condition, with lightly trimmed edges, vertical line along right edge and light silvering to darker areas. R&R COA.
