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 ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttzhm.2 Nearly everyone agrees that Walt Whitman is America’s greatest poet. But many Americans agree reluctantly or ...

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'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 ...

When we look at photographs of authors, especially famous authors, we scan their faces, hoping to find some connection between the way they look and their work. We never find it, or at least I ...

Calamus is a sequence of poems by Walt Whitman about camaraderie, friendship, and love among men. These innovative short works explore same-sex relationships in ways well ahead of their time and ...

Later regarded as one of America's finest poets, Walt Whitman had already published his famous Leaves of Grass when he visited his wounded brother at Fredericksburg. Shocked at the carnage of the ...

This engaging film tells the story of Walt Whitman’s remarkable life (1819-1892), the turbulent era in which he lived, and the timeless poetry he created. Interweaving narration and dramatic ...