Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town ... what he called the "ballad style" of poetry, by which he meant ...

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 ...

Walt Whitman was a late bloomer ... For decades it faced ridicule and censorship for its frank sexuality and innovative style. Whitman more or less invented what is now called “free verse ...