Walt Whitman was a poet born right here in this very town, Huntington, New York. His house is now a museum that sits across the street from the Walt Whitman Mall. To honor Walt Whitman's greatness several of his poems from The Leaves of Grass have been engraved upon the walls of the mall. The life that Whitman led was a hard one, and his controversial poetry and ideas didn't help much either. Many people …showed first 75 words of 669 total…

…showed last 75 words of 669 total…could not return to Washington. He was able to buy a house with the money from the 1882 publication of the Leaves of Grass. He spent the rest of his days revising and releasing new versions of the Leaves of Grass, and preparing the final volume of his poetry, Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). Walt Whitman died on March 26, 1892. He was buried in a tomb he had designed and built in Harleigh Cemetery in Camden County, New Jersey.