In a recent piece on the centennial of his death, the New Yorker called Walt Whitman ”a better poet than we ever deserved or could have hoped for.” How much convincing does one need? Abraham Lincoln ...

I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings when a newspaper notice of the earliest edition of Leaves of Grass reached me, in Paris, in the autumn of 1855. It was the most exhilarating piece of ...

American poet Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago on May 31, 1819. His Leaves Of Grass has been called the most important book of American poetry ever. Yet in 1855, he could barely give it away.

Walt Whitman wrote one of his most famous poems, Song of Myself, in 1855, but according to former United States poet laureate Robert Hass, it wasn't until much later that the poem acquired the name by ...

"Walt Whitman", a brief biography of the poet by C. J. Furness, has just been issued by the Harvard University Press, as one of its November publications. The story of the poet during the last years ...

CAMDEN — Camden, Walt Whitman said, brought him "blessed returns." The poet, writer and American icon, during his life and in the many years since his death, has returned those blessings. His words ...

This then is life -- Roots and leaves -- The shapes arise -- The outsetting bard -- In paths untrodden -- Emblematic blades -- Loving comrade -- Over the carnage -- Ships at sea -- Ebbing tide -- ...

Later regarded as one of America's finest poets, Walt Whitman had already published his famous Leaves of Grass when he visited his wounded brother at Fredericksburg. Shocked at the carnage of the ...

Walter Whitman Jr. (/ˈhwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American ...