In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" or just "Walt Whitman" before assuming the title "Song of Myself") the first person narrator eventually reveals ...

It was the most exhilarating piece of news I had received from America during the six months ... two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat ... against colonial rule in Latin America. Like his countrymen who idolized Giuseppe ...

Whitman's poetry often expresses the collective unconscious of 19th-century America, for better and for worse. Whitman's inclusive poetic voice, however, has influenced generations of writers ...

and the idea of a national poet. Ed Folsom, a literature professor and Whitman specialist at the University of Iowa: He grows up in the first generation of people that are thinking of America ...

Walt Whitman's ego ... of Leaves of Grass, Whitman called on Emerson and discussed the book. Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried ... occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn ...

Walt Whitman offers ... figure of the era, praised Whitman highly, as did many other reviewers. Whitman published a new edition of the book in 1860 containing poems that he hoped would help ...

Walt Whitman was a 19th century American poet who used lyric to announce the ... s call for an authentic poetic representation for America which fully embraces the immensity of the inner self.