Walt Whitman CrossWord

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Across
  1. 2. Whitman's profession before becoming a full-time poet
  2. 3. "Song of ___" - Whitman's poem celebrating the self
  3. 7. Political ideal Whitman celebrated in his poetry
  4. 9. Whitman's most famous poetry collection (1855)
  5. 10. Collection published in Whitman's final years (from "November Boughs")
  6. 11. New Jersey city where Whitman spent his final years
  7. 12. Whitman's nickname, "The Good Gray ___"
Down
  1. 1. War during which Whitman served as a nurse
  2. 4. President mourned in "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
  3. 5. Poetic form without regular meter or rhyme that Whitman pioneered
  4. 6. State where Whitman was born
  5. 8. Borough where Whitman was born
  6. 11. "O ___! My Captain!" - famous elegy for Lincoln