His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary ... visiting his family and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was ...

This engaging film tells the story of Walt Whitman’s remarkable life (1819-1892), the turbulent era in which he lived, and the timeless poetry he created. Interweaving narration and dramatic ...

The exposure fundamentally changed Walt Whitman’s perspective on poetry, and it would take years ... dinner at Emerson’s home with friends and family, where he mostly stayed quiet, observing ...

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 ...

The result is a beautiful and moving film cycle. Walt Whitman was a late bloomer. By the early 1850s he had published poems, short stories, and a novel, but all of them were thoroughly ...

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 ...