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 ...

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 ...

O'Connor's pamphlet was followed, two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other publications on the same inexhaustible theme have appeared since ...

“But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass.” —Walt Whitman From “Proud Music of the Storm” to “Italian Music in Dakota,” the influence of opera on Whitman’s work is more than ...