American Masters- Whitman and Dickinson

Walt Whitman's birth

May 13, 1819

Walt Whitman is born in Long Island, New York

Dickicnson's Birth

Dec 10, 1830

Emily Dickinson is born in Amherst, Massachusetts

The year of 1855 for Dickinson and Whitman

Jul 4, 1855

Walt Whitman publishes first edition of Leaves of Grass; Emily Dickinson visits Philadelphia and Washington, perhaps meeting a married clergyman whom she has fallen in love with. (Late winter)