"At Last Complete" The last version of Leaves of Grass to appear in Whitman's lifetime contained just minor corrections to the 1882 edition, with new poems bound into the book as annexes ...

The first edition of Whitman’s major poetic work was published in 1855 at his own expense, and bore only his image—no name. From the first to the last of the six editions of "Leaves of Grass," the ...

If, as Whitman said, Leaves of Grass and the war were one, they particularly came together in Lincoln ... for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted to ...

I said "Put Leaves of Grass there. Nobody can see through that." "Not even the author?" he said, with a whimsical lifting of the brows. Much of the talk was about himself and his poems ...