Walt Whitman was born in New York in 1819 ... Leaves of Grass can be regarded not as a collection of poems, but as a life-long poem because Whitman continued to revise and expand it throughout ...

Walt Whitman was born in ... on the first edition of his lifelong poem “Leaves of Grass”, where he was photographed as a “democratic bard”. Whitman published his collection of poems ...

‘And your very flesh shall be a great poem,’ wrote Doty’s subject, Walt Whitman, who, one suspects ... Leaves of Grass was first published in 1855 and obsessively revised throughout Whitman’s life, ...

The poems “are a really important corrective to our caricatures of Whitman” as an “egotistical blowhard,” says UVA English professor Stephen Cushman, who curated a display on “Live Oak” for the recent ...

"Walt Whitman, an American": so the poet introduced himself in the first poem of his first collection, and so he continues to be read and received, by fellow Americans and foreigners alike. His ...

The following description of Walt Whitman's life contains 15 inaccuracies ... In 1848 he moved to New Orleans to write poetry. Later that year he returned to Brooklyn and founded a pro-slavery ...

Walter Whitman, after which he discarded "Walter" for Walt); editing newspapers and making political speeches, on the Democratic side; leading an impulsive, irregular sort of life, and absorbing ...

In a curious twist of history, Andrew Carnegie, that titan of industry, once called Walt ... Whitman this sense of connection? The poem is structured around the following possibility: If life ...

Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never spoke to one another in real life, except perhaps the briefest ... addressing this fragmentary poem to “Libertad.” The question of exactly why, instead ...

Whenever I hear people say something stupid about America, which is often these days, I want to punch them in the nose and hand them Walt ... realities of everyday life. Whitman grappled with ...