O'Connor's pamphlet was followed, two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other publications on the same inexhaustible theme have appeared since ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... old, or in between? What themes does it express? What events in the country (such as the Civil War) or Whitman's own life (such as his health ...

In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman ... leading to the Civil War. Whitman rearranged the poems in the 1867 edition to emphasize themes of social cohesion and unity ...