Later regarded as one of America's finest poets, Walt Whitman had already published his famous Leaves of Grass when he visited his wounded brother at Fredericksburg. Shocked at the carnage of the ...

"Walt Whitman", a brief biography of the poet by C. J. Furness, has just been issued by the Harvard University Press, as one of its November publications. The story of the poet during the last years ...

In his 1883 biography of Walt Whitman, Bucke depicted a man so saintly that even Whitman himself was taken aback. “I am by no means that benevolent, equable, happy creature you portray,” he wrote ...

American poet Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago on May 31, 1819. His Leaves Of Grass has been called the most important book of American poetry ever. Yet in 1855, he could barely give it away.

Walter Whitman Jr. (/ˈhwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American ...

I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings when a newspaper notice of the earliest edition of Leaves of Grass reached me, in Paris, in the autumn of 1855. It was the most exhilarating piece of ...

Walt Whitman _(not to be confused with the poet, 1819-1892, of the same name)_ was an American stage and screen character actor, in films from 1915 to 1924.

The big embarrassment of Walt Whit­man’s later years was not his poverty (groups of writers in England and America had to take up a collection) but the cult that arose around him. Ardent followers ...