PBS7 年
Whitman, Emerson, and 19th Century Literary America
Walt Whitman ... Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day as one of the pre-eminent thinkers, writers and lecturers in America.
PBS4 年
Walt Whitman and the Civil War
Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was ... wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved to discover that George had hardly ...
The Atlantic7 年
Reminiscences of Walt Whitman
It was the most exhilarating piece of news I had received from America ... a whole library of Whitman literature, in English, French, German, and other languages. There are Walt Whitman Societies ...
The New York Times2 年
Disunion: Inside Walt Whitman’s Notebook
Walt Whitman's small ... against colonial rule in Latin America. Like his countrymen who idolized Giuseppe Garibaldi and other European freedom fighters, Whitman – with typical expansiveness ...
The American Conservative4 年
Marvell the Dutch Spy, Walt Whitman and the Gilchrists, and Underappreciated Classic Mysteries
A recently uncovered manuscript from the Wellcome Library, however, throws new […] In Lapham’s Quarterly, Don James McLaughlin tells the story of Walt Whitman, the Gilchrist women, and a ...