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 ...

My readers may think this a practical but curiously prosaic illustration of these powerful ... two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other ...

On Saturday, May 3 at 4 p.m., the Clark Art Institute presents “Walt Whitman Comes to the Clark,” a combination film ...

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 ...

The first edition of Whitman’s major poetic work was published ... it is certainly true that many of them aim at a realization in illustration and form of the themes the poet addressed throughout his ...

This engaging film tells the story of Walt Whitman’s remarkable life (1819-1892), the turbulent era in which he lived, and the timeless poetry he created. Interweaving narration and dramatic ...

Pittsburg State University will host author Micah Bateman for the Victor J. Emmett Jr. Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on April ...

The result is a beautiful and moving film cycle. Walt Whitman was a late bloomer. By the early 1850s he had published poems, short stories, and a novel, but all of them were thoroughly ...

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Critic David Reynolds has said: “Lincoln, as Whitman ... poet himself; for this reason, it is easy to see why critics evinced from an early date an interest in considering the relationship between the ...

the Brooklyn Museum highlights the pieces that have shaped its collection—and the foundational art made in the borough A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their ...