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

Even in this photograph, however, we would have doubts as to which voice in Whitman’s poetry belongs to that ... tired even of being Walt Whitman. “There was a period early on in my career ...