Walt Whitman (1819-1892) took up the implicit challenge (as well as explicit ones from other pens, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson’s) and, nine years later, brought out the first edition of his landmark ...

A few copies were issued containing “Drum Taps” only; upon Lincoln's death, Whitman added “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” with a separate title page. Gems from Walt Whitman. Selected by ...

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

"That," said he, "is Walt Whitman, -- with very common goods inside." It was not until his writings became less prophetical, and more consciously literary in their aim, that Lowell and scholars of ...

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 ...

During the early years of the war he continued writing in Brooklyn ... in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved to discover that George ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... As commentators have noted, Whitman saw himself as a national poet -- someone whose writings would help address the most serious issues ...

From Walt Whitman to the contemporary period, the long poem has been one of the more dynamic, intricate, and yet challenging literary practices of modernity. Addressing those challenges, Writing in ...

246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station ... A notable artifact is a writing desk used by Whitman as a young schoolteacher on Long Island. The exhibits surround a large performance space ...

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.