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PHILADELPHIA, March 26 -- Walt Whitman, the poet, died at 6:43 o'clock this evening at his home, 328 Mochel Street, Camden. He began to sink at 4:30, and grew gradually weaker until the end.
Walt Whitman's small notebook ... Beginning on the next page, Whitman turns directly to the disaster confronting the Union, addressing this fragmentary poem to “Libertad.” ...
His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary ... he inserted a short new poem about Lincoln's death. A few weeks later, he wrote a longer elegy, "When ...
Even in this photograph, however, we would have doubts as to which voice in Whitman’s poetry belongs to that ... taken a year before the poet’s death. The celebrated poet is not posing ...
I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings ... I bring to you no proud poem,' " I replied. O'Connor cried out, in his vehement way, "That's so, Walt, -- that's so!" "I think you are right ...
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 ...