I first made acquaintance with ... the great statesman; in the old tenement opposite, in a bare and desolate back room, up three flights of stairs, quite alone, lived the poet. Walt led the ...

Walt Whitman From “Proud Music of the Storm” to “Italian Music in Dakota,” the influence of opera on Whitman’s work is more than apparent even without the corroborating evidence of quotes like the one ...

In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" or just ... letter reprinted in full, and even a quote from Emerson on the book's spine — possibly the first ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

among the famous birthdays for May 31. Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... a reading of one of his or her best-known poems. Groups should also copy the poem onto poster-sized paper and post it on the wall.