The fourth edition contained poems on the Civil War and on the death of President Lincoln. Walt Whitman died in 1892. Whitman's poetry is invaded by optimism and romantic faith in the dynamic ...
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 ...
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, 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'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 ...
His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman ... where the future president occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family 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 ...
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 ...
Allegro Academy invites you to escape to an intimate evening of music and poetry this February by attending Where the Light ...