He liked especially any allusion, serious or jocular, to his poems ... for periodicals under his full name, Walter Whitman, after which he discarded "Walter" for Walt); editing newspapers and ...

To appreciate the act of offering comfort for the victims of war, there are few better sources of inspiration than Walt ...

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 ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried ... occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn ...

Walt Whitman offers ... figure of the era, praised Whitman highly, as did many other reviewers. Whitman published a new edition of the book in 1860 containing poems that he hoped would help ...

Shortly before a controversial Gilded Age presidential election 140 years ago, Walt Whitman, the renowned poet of democracy, published a short piece of verse titled “Election Day, November ...

Whitman identifies two criteria for social progress: “a large variety of character and full ... a famous poem, and I think it sounds like Patti Smith: “People got the power.” Walt would ...

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 address the ...