Those are the final lines from Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself,” which ... to New York City and his first love, to a World War II POW camp, and then back to the U.S., where Daniel ...

Three years after his death, his partner fulfils his wish. Walt Whitman, gay love and a posthumous novel Daniel Dell Blake doesn’t want to fit in. He wants the right to stand out. But in a small ...

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 offers ... figure of the era, praised Whitman highly, as did many other reviewers. Whitman published a new edition of the book in 1860 containing poems that he hoped would help ...

I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings ... I bring to you no proud poem,' " I replied. O'Connor cried out, in his vehement way, "That's so, Walt, -- that's so!" "I think you are right ...

Walt Whitman was a late bloomer. By the early 1850s he had published poems, short stories ... but he managed to write about same-sex love in ways that were more than one hundred years ahead ...