Facts : 1 America s two greatest 19th-century poets could hardly have been more different in temperament and style
Facts : 2 His major work was Leaves of Grass, in which he uses a free-flowing verse and lines of irregular length to depict the all-inclusiveness of American democracy
Facts : 3 Lawrence wrote that Whitman was the first to smash the old moral conception that the soul of man is something superior and above the flesh
Facts : 4 Within its formal structure, her poetry is ingenious, witty, exquisitely wrought, and psychologically penetrating
Facts : 5 Her work was unconventional for its day, and little of it was published during her lifetime
Facts : 6 The opening of another Dickinson poem toys with her position as a woman in a male-dominated society and an unrecognized poet: I m nobody! Who are you?/Are you nobody too?