This poet's first published poem was a reminiscence about an elderly black man entitled "Negro Harry", while his first short-story, "Death in the Scho
This poet's first published poem was a reminiscence about an elderly black man entitled "Negro Harry", while his first short-story, "Death in the School-Room", was based on his Long Island teaching experience. His only novel, Franklin Evans, is a temperance tract, while his Civil War poems are collected in Specimen Days and Collect and Drum Taps. He is most famous for poems like "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry",  "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." FTP, identify this great American poet, the author of Leaves of Grass and "Song of Myself".
This poet's first published poem was a reminiscence about an elderly black man entitled "Negro Harry", while his first short-story, "Death in the School-Room", was based on his Long Island teaching experience.
Walt Whitman