The author of Leaves of Grass had loomed so large in my ... writing stories and sketches for periodicals under his full name, Walter Whitman, after which he discarded "Walter" for Walt); editing ...

“But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass.” —Walt Whitman From “Proud Music of the Storm” to “Italian Music in Dakota,” the influence of opera on Whitman’s work is more than ...

During the early years of the war he continued writing in Brooklyn ... in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved to discover that George ...

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 ...

for this reason, it is easy to see why critics evinced from an early date an interest in considering the relationship between the two. William Eleazar Barton. Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.