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romanticism period begins
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Frankenstein was published by Mary Shelley (Influenced different aspect of thought)
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whitman is born
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Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes "The Triumph of Life"
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Mendelssohn demonstrates his literary potential through the novel entitled, Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, while Goethe highlights the emotion of romance through his novel, The Sorrows of the Young Werther.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame is published by Victor Hugo and Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley brings out Frankenstein. In the field of visual art, Malford Wiliam Turner creates numerous paintings depicting the natural environment.
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He finds work as an office boy, and then apprentices as a printer for a local newspaper. In 1833, his family moves back to Long Island.
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Whitman works at several newspapers in Brooklyn, Long Island and New York City.
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Emerson publishes "Nature"
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Dickens publishes Oliver Twist
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Whitman teaches school on Long Island. He stops teaching from 1838-39 to publish a weekly newspaper, the Long Islander.
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Emerson/Thoreau lead the Romantic movement with their essays
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Whitman moves back to New York City to work as a printer. He also begins publishing fiction and poetry, as well as journalistic pieces, in newspapers and journals. In 1842 his didactic temperance novel, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate, appears in print. He stakes out radical positions on labor issues, women's property rights, capital punishment and immigration -- putting him in near constant opposition to society's prevailing sentiments. In just four years in Manhattan, Whitman works briefly at
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Henry David Thoreau published A Week on the Concord and the Merrimack Rivers
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Brooklyn printer Andrew Rome prints the first edition of Leaves of Grass. (There is no credited author, although Whitman is named in a poem and is credited on the copyright page.) Whitman himself helps set some of the type.
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Whitman writes for Life Illustrated, and publishes a second edition of Leaves of Grass.
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The third edition of Leaves of Grass is published in Boston. In Massachusetts to see his new publisher, Whitman also visits with his literary hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Finding he has a talent and desire to give comfort to wounded soldiers, Whitman relocates to Washington, D.C. and makes the rounds of the local military hospitals. He gets a part time job at the Army Paymaster's Office to pay for his modest rented room.
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Whitman publishes his fourth edition of Leaves of Grass.
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After a move back to Brooklyn, Whitman publishes the fifth edition of Leaves of Grass, Democratic Vistas, and Passage to India; all are dated 1871.
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whitman dies