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 ...

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 ...

Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman is ... often clearly traceable in Whitman's early poems; seldom in the later.

2 Nearly everyone agrees that Walt Whitman is America’s greatest poet. But many Americans agree reluctantly or grudgingly and, perhaps because the influential contemporary critics of poetry—“the new ...

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 ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook ... he used the Spanish word – as he did in many poems beginning in 1860 – is a fascinating puzzle. Perhaps Whitman wanted to make clear that the ideal of ...

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's ego ... of Leaves of Grass, Whitman called on Emerson and discussed the book. Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing ...