"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 ...

O'Connor's pamphlet was followed, two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other publications on the same inexhaustible theme have appeared since ...

Walt Whitman was born in 1819 on Long Island ... Whitman's first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass (1855), featured a unique voice. There was no regular rhyme or rhythm to the lines; they ...

The poems “are a really important corrective to our caricatures ... who curated a display on “Live Oak” for the recent exhibition Encompassing Multitudes: The Song of Walt Whitman at the Albert and ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... The evolution of a book - and its author. Many of the poems Whitman added to Leaves of Grass in its different editions reflect changes ...

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 ...

Whenever I hear people say something stupid about America, which is often these days, I want to punch them in the nose and hand them Walt Whitman's ... several recruiting poems ("Thunder on!

The first edition of Whitman’s major poetic work was published in 1855 at his own expense, and bore only his image—no name. From the first to the last of the six editions of "Leaves of Grass," the ...

They will share their words and poems to speak back to Walt Whitman in his own city. Walt’s dream of multitudes, of being “old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,” still inspires ...

This park honors Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet, journalist, and native New Yorker. Whitman’s vision of an optimistic and self-reliant America surpassed traditional Victorian boundaries and influenced ...

for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted to cast a shadow ... Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.