I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings ... I bring to you no proud poem,' " I replied. O'Connor cried out, in his vehement way, "That's so, Walt, -- that's so!" "I think you are right ...

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 ...

A CT history professor revisits the memorable election of 1884, 'one of the dirtiest in U.S. history,' which inspired a poem ...

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

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt ... Whitman was devastated. Just as the book was going to press, he inserted a short new ...

In the second episode of The Long and Short, Mark and Seamus turn to Walt Whitman's ‘Song of Myself’, from Leaves ... physicality and exuberance of this seminal American poem, its relationship with ...

No. “I hear America singing,” Whitman wrote in a famous poem, and I think it sounds like Patti Smith: “People got the power.” Walt would approve, with caution about the cost of failure to ...