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Walt Whitman and his Poems. Regarded as one of America's greatest poets, Walt Whitman joins the ranks of Dante, Shakespeare, Virgil, and Homer in terms of artistry and exceptional skill in the written words. One of Whitman's finest works - Leaves of Grass, published in 1855, featured various themes including friendship, nature, democracy, and love.
Walt Whitman, born in 1819, is known as the father of free verse poetry. His deeply emotional, spiritual, and nature-based poems appeal to poetry loves around the world. Throughout his work, he explores themes of life, the self, sexuality, nature, and spirituality. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential poets to come ...
Great news! The Archive has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for work on "The Late Life Writings of Walt Whitman." The grant will focus on the editing of two experimental mixtures of prose and verse, November Boughs (1888) and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), along with more than 300 manuscripts that ...
Walt Whitman was born, the second of nine children, in Huntington, Long Island, New York, on May 31, 1819. His ancestors and family had lived in the West Hills area of South Huntington for over 125 years. Walt Whitman’s Birthplace, a State Historic Site listed on the National Register of Historic Places, still stands and commemorates his ...
Feb 22, 2012 · Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, Poets, American, War and literature, War and literature Publisher New York : Barnes & Noble Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English
With Walt Whitman in Camden, by Horace Traubel With Walt Whitman in Camden is a nine-volume record of Horace Traubel's almost-daily conversations with Whitman and visitors to his Camden, New Jersey, home from 1888 to the poet's death in 1892. Our searchable digital edition reproduces its wealth of information in the form of letters, images ...
Whitman's Drum-Taps in a Time of War - While poets like John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, and Alan Seeger are defined by their war poems, even categorized as “war poets” for the active role they played on the battlefield and the sometimes brutal honesty with which they reported the horrors and tragedies of war, perhaps somewhat less discussed is Walt Whitman, who provided his own account of his ...
