Walt Whitman, who was born 200 years ago this year, ... He surely read “Circles” and “Self-Reliance,” and “The Poet,” an essay in which Emerson called out for a genuinely American bard.

In the profound and prescient essay, “Democratic Vistas,” Walt Whitman addressed a nation struggling to unify after the Civil War, and in the turbulence of its democratic struggle, continuing ...

Whenever I hear people say something stupid about America, which is often these days, I want to punch them in the nose and hand them Walt Whitman's 1871 essay "Democratic Vistas." The punch would ...

Todd Nelson identified Walt Whitman’s great Reconstruction-era essay “Democratic Vistas” as a way to understand our perilous time (“Revisit the cautionary words of Walt Whitman,” Nov. 11).

Walt Whitman Collection . October 27, 2008. Description by Daniel V. Donatacci, PhD candidate in English and American Literature. Journalist, critic and feminist Margaret Fuller wrote an essay in 1846 ...

And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “Democratic Vistas.”The author of “Leaves of Grass” (1855), whose poems are still found in every anthology of American poetry, felt moved to ...

Essay: Walt Whitman inspires my own life’s song. Poet Walt Whitman, circa 1869. ... Walt knew all about our shared humanity, regardless of what we look like or where we’ve come from.

Editor’s Note: Karen Karbiener is a Walt Whitman scholar who teaches at New York University. Her works include an edition of “Leaves of Grass,” a book introducing children to Whitman’s ...

To make these pictures, the essay’s writer and T’s editors chose some of their favorite passages of Walt Whitman’s poetry — excerpted below as he published them in the 1891-92 edition of ...

Acclaimed poet Mark Doty's memoir is not only an exaltation of America's troubadour, Walt Whitman, but also a celebration of gay manhood, queerness, and the power and elasticity of poetry.

W hen Walt Whitman was born, in 1819, ... Emerson, already an established writer, had written a widely circulated essay about the importance of self-reliance.

For the answer, look to Walt Whitman,” Opinion, Dec. 22) Contrary to his statement that Whitman’s reverence has no counterpart in Eastern philosophies, let me remind him of two of Buddhism’s ...