Walt Whitman's ego ... of Leaves of Grass, Whitman called on Emerson and discussed the book. Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing ...

It was the most exhilarating piece of news I had received from America during the six months ... two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat ... against colonial rule in Latin America. Like his countrymen who idolized Giuseppe ...

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, born in 1819, was a pioneering American poet, essayist, and journalist who revolutionized poetry with his work “Leaves of Grass.” Often hailed as the “father of free verse ...

Compelled to help Walt Whitman is considered one of the greatest ... Why would perhaps America's greatest poet voluntarily ...

Smirke suggest he did: “Andrew Marvell’s poems and prose works exhibit many ... Don James McLaughlin tells the story of Walt Whitman, the Gilchrist women, and a painting: “Scholarship ...