But even without its mention in the film, Walt Whitman's poem deserves a spot on the list of the most famous poems ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried ... occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn ...

Walt Whitman ... hearing Whitman's poem after the others? Is Whitman unique because of how he wrote, what he wrote about, or both? Which of the six other poets you learned about most resembles ...

for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted to cast a shadow over the poet himself; for this reason, it is easy to see why critics evinced from an early ...