Walt Whitman is probably one of the first names people think of when the subject of poems about nature comes up—his most ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...