Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

O'Connor's pamphlet was followed, two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other publications on the same inexhaustible theme have appeared since ...

is one of the most memorable quotes from the movie. But even without its mention in the film, Walt Whitman’s poem deserves a spot on our list of the most famous poems ever written. Penned in ...

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 ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... The evolution of a book - and its author. Many of the poems Whitman added to Leaves of Grass in its different editions reflect changes ...

His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman ... where the future president occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and ...

The result is a beautiful and moving film cycle. Walt Whitman was a late bloomer. By the early 1850s he had published poems, short stories, and a novel, but all of them were thoroughly ...