Fredson Bowers didn’t know what he would find when he began digging into the disordered stack of 230 loose pages—all from 19th-century Walt ... Whitman wrote the sequence after a relationship with a ...

The book he knew best was the Bible ... two years later (1867), by John Burroughs’s Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other publications on the same inexhaustible theme have appeared ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook ... Lincoln en route to and from his summer cottage. In a famous journal entry in August 1863, the poet wrote of the “deep latent sadness” in the president ...

"Walt Whitman, an American": so the poet introduced himself in the first poem of his first collection, and so he continues to be read and received, by fellow Americans and foreigners alike. His ...

Walt Whitman was born ... The subjects of the poems were the self, the body and the multitude of America. These themes would preoccupy Whitman throughout his life. Keeping the book's title ...

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 ...

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