Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town; I have seen him!" When I asked where, he replied: "At the stereotype ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... prepare an oral presentation for the class that includes (a) a brief biography of their assigned poet and (b) a reading of one of his or ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved to discover that George had hardly ...

To appreciate the act of offering comfort for the victims of war, there are few better sources of inspiration than Walt ...

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 ...

This is Reconstruction. Todd R. Nelson is a resident of Penobscot. And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “Democratic Vistas.” The author of “Leaves of Grass” (1855), whose poems are ...

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 ...

for this reason, it is easy to see why critics evinced from an early date an interest in considering the relationship between the two. William Eleazar Barton. Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.