Walt Whitman’s Guide to a Thriving Democracy America had a mind shaped by its Founders, but the country needed the poet to discover its spirit.

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

The most wise and visionary analysis of American culture in 2016 and this year’s presidential race comes from 1871. In the profound and prescient essay, “Democratic Vistas,” Walt Whitman ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Dodd, right, principal at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, watches a student walkout on Dec. 22. (Robb Hill for The Washington Post) My favorite quote about writing — or anything ...

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 ...

Walt Whitman was born on Long Island in the Town of Huntington. My family has visited his home and stood at the threshold of his birth room. In his famous book “Leaves of Grass,” he writes of ...

Walt Whitman (AP) Facebook X The gay porn studio CockyBoys has just finished releasing a feature-length film that takes its title, “ A Thing of Beauty,” from a John Keats poem.

T Book Club Retracing Walt Whitman’s Steps Through Brooklyn and Manhattan The poet wandered for himself and for his various day jobs with New York City newspapers.