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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” has inspired the art exhibition at the Sterling College Art Center Gallery ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...