Whitman's poetry often expresses the collective unconscious of 19th-century America, for better and for worse. Whitman's inclusive poetic voice, however, has influenced generations of writers ...

A Beloved President While in Washington, Whitman would sometimes see President Abraham Lincoln in the street and tip his hat. Lincoln knew of the poet; years earlier, Lincoln's law partner had ...

The Emersonian influence is often clearly traceable in Whitman's early poems; seldom in the later. It is in the first line of the very first poem in which he struck the keynote of his defiant ...

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 ...

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 ...

for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted to cast a shadow over the poet himself; for this reason, it is easy to see why critics evinced from an early ...

cannot be said necessarily to have lent expression in every case to Whitman’s particular vision of the ideal fusion between the word and its vehicle, it is certainly true that many of them aim at a ...

Rich Kegler designed six gorgeous broadsides that combine Whitman poetry with Burchfield images; you’ll see those in the exhibit as well as in the gift shop, along with a catalogue with essays ...