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Jean Jacques Rousseau born
Birth of philosopher, writer Jean Jacques Rousseau who believed in valuing the individual and his or her capacity for good. Some of his works marked the beginnings of the Romantic Movement. -
Industrial Revolution
It is considered by many to be a significant influence on the artists and writers of the Romantic Movement. -
French Revolution starts
The tremendous changes going on in France influenced the artists of the Romantic Movement. -
Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth publish "Lyrical Ballads"
This collection reflects many of the themes valued by the writers of the Romantic Movement. -
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
The novel is an example of a Gothic work that was created out of the elements of Romanticism. -
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Whitemans life
He was born in West Hills, New York.
At the age of 72 he died in Camden -
Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes "Prometheus Unbound"
After creating and editing he publishes -
Walt Whitman Learns Printing Trade
Gets a job as an apprentice for the Long island Patriot Newspaper. He immediately takes to the profession, and is soon freelancing on his own as a printer and typesetter for local publications. -
The beginning of Walt Whitmans teaching
Whitman's newspaper trade comes to a halt after a fire destroys the printing district in New York. He rejoins his parents and siblings in Long Island and gets a job as a schoolteacher -
Queen Victoria takes throne of the United Kingdom
The beginning of Queen Victoria's reign sees the decline of the Romantic Movement.The decline of Romanticism occurred because a new movement, positivism, began to take hold of the ideals of the intellectuals around 1840 that lasted until about 1880. -
Walt Whitman returns to the newspaper
Whitman temporarily leaves teaching to take over the editorship of The Long Islander newspaper. He sells the paper after ten months and returns to teaching. -
Walt Whitman publishes his first novel "Franklin Evans" or "The Inebriate"
The pro-temperance novel is commercially popular, even though Whitman himself later comes to describe it as "rot." -
Walt Whitman begins working at Brooklyn Daily Eagle Newspaper
His articles there include reviews of early novels by a young writer named Herman Melville and the poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson. -
Walt Whitmans creats Newspaper and hones his poetic style
Whitman founds an antislavery newspaper called the Weekly Freeman. The paper's offices are burned after the first issue is published. For the next six years, he works as a freelance journalist, while honing his poetic style. -
Walt Whitman publishes "Leaves of Grass"
Whitman publishes the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a collection of twelve poems written in a bold new style. Readers are shocked and awed by the poems' raw subject material and striking style. Ralph Waldo Emerson sends Whitman a letter praising the book and congratulating him on "the beginning of a great career." -
Walt Whitman publishes "Leaves of Grass" for the 2nd time
Whitman adds on poems to Leaves of Grass, making the count of 12 poems go to 32 poems. Whitman makes a career out of revising and updating the book, with more than half a dozen editions in his lifetime. -
Walt Whitman publishes 3rd edition of "Leaves of Grass"
He had 124 new poems that appeared in the new edition of Leaves of grass. The new poem "I hear America Singing" was put into this book and later on a different version in the 1867 edition. -
Walt Whitman publishes poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!
This poem was written by Walt Whitman because of the Civil war. -
Civil War
The Civil War breaks out. Whitman moves to Washington D.C. and works as a nurse in the military hospitals -
Lincoln Assasinated
President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated at Ford's Theater less than a week after the Confederate surrender. Whitman, now a clerk at the U.S. Department of the Interior, composes the poems "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" in honor of the fallen president -
Whitman and William D. O'Connor publish "The Good Gray Poet"
Using it as a defense of Whitman in the wake of his firing from the Interior.
June 30, 1865 Whitman's boss at the Department of the Interior fired him because of the supposedly obscene content of Leaves of Grass, which Whitman worked on during his downtime at the office. He immediately got another job at the U.S. Attorney General's Office. -
Walt Whitman publishes 4th edition of "Leaves of Grass"
This one contains 3 issues; "Drum Taps", "Sequal to Drum Taps", and the 3rd being only poems from "Leaves of Grass" which at this point held 237 poems . -
"A glimpse" By Walt Whitman is published
This poem was published in the 1867 edition of "Leaves of Grass" -
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Whitmans Last works
These included "A thought of Columbus", The final edition of "Leaves of Grass", "Sands at Seventy", "Good-Bye My Fancy!", and a farewell essey "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" -
Walt Whitman Publishes "O captain! My captain!"
This poem was written in honor of President Abraham Lincoln being Assinated April 14, 1865. -
Final edition of "Leaves of Grass"
Whitman prepares the final edition of Leaves of Grass, known as the "Deathbed Edition." In his author's note, he writes that he would like "this new 1892 edition to absolutely supersede all previous ones. Faulty as it is, he decides it is by far his special and entire self-chosen poetic utterance."