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 ...

No matter how sad I may be, I know a few Walt Whitman verses will remind me of how rare and magnificent it is to be alive. Inspirational poems are like love poems written for life itself.

Walt Whitman, born in 1819, was a pioneering American poet, essayist, and journalist who revolutionized poetry with his work “Leaves of Grass.” Often hailed as the “father of free verse ...

Walt Whitman offers ... figure of the era, praised Whitman highly, as did many other reviewers. Whitman published a new edition of the book in 1860 containing poems that he hoped would help ...

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.” ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried ... occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn ...