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These lesson plans were developed for teachers to use in conjunction with a class visit to
the Walt Whitman House in Camden, New Jersey, the poets home in the last years of his
life. He came to Camden in 1873 where he lived with his brother George. By this time
in his career, Whitman had earned an international reputation and attracted the
attention of the day's most prominent literary figures. Among them, Charles Dickens
and Oscar Wilde came to visit Whitman. In 1884 he purchased his home, the only house
he ever owned, at 328 Mickle Street. He lived there until his death in 1892. Whitman
is considered one of this country's greatest poets. Invigorating poetry with a fresh,
original voice, Whitman amazed his contemporaries. Among them, Ralph Waldo Emerson
described Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass as the most extraordinary piece of wit
and wisdom that America has yet contributed.
Please click on the links below to download the desired lesson plan.
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