When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south ... New York stagecoach drivers, Whitman had written about conditions in ...

Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman ... "I could never have written Leaves of Grass." Whitman was at that time a ...

Walt Whitman's ego seemed impervious to criticism, and his self-promotion — writing anonymous reviews of his own book — suggests total self-assurance. There was, however, one man whose praise ...

The work's fans included Ralph Waldo Emerson ... often signing below their name, "Written by Walt Whitman, a friend." Of the ...