Publishers Weekly: O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
Burleigh tells the story of the poet and of the president he so admired, sprinkling quotes from Whitman and lines of his poetry throughout: “Walt saw everything: the tall and lanky body, the dark ...
On this day in 1819, Walt Whitman was born. Happy 200th Birthday, Walt Whitman! He is “considered today to be one of America’s greatest and most influential poets. His book of poetry, ‘Leaves of Grass ...
When the aspiring poet Horace Traubel met an aging Walt Whitman in 1873, the two developed a special relationship. The younger man visited the older one at his home in Camden, N.J., every day to ...
World Socialist Web Site: Two celebrations of Walt Whitman’s bicentenary in New York City
Walt Whitman: America’s Poet, at New York Public Library, Central Branch, through The 19th century saw a flowering of American poetry. Among the many important figures of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You don't have to like poetry to like Walt Whitman. You don't even have to know of Walt Whitman to know of his poetry. Does the ...
In 1876, Bram Stoker, later famous as the author of "Dracula," wrote Walt Whitman a fan letter. "I am six feet two inches high and twelve stone weight naked and used to be forty-one or forty-two ...