I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings when a newspaper ... the words that burn in the prose-poem Nature, and in the essays on Spiritual Laws, The Over-Soul, Self-Reliance.

Walt Whitman's small notebook ... Beginning on the next page, Whitman turns directly to the disaster confronting the Union, addressing this fragmentary poem to “Libertad.” ...

Walt Whitman was a late bloomer. By the early 1850s he had published poems, short stories ... Whitman loves nature. He believes that people—and democracies—can thrive only if people keep ...

Walt Whitman's ego ... of Leaves of Grass, Whitman called on Emerson and discussed the book. Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing ...