More importantly, he lent an ear to the young men who needed a friend. His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary." Small and Large Kindnesses These small ...

Great men both, each nobly proportioned in body ... O'Connor's pamphlet was followed, two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other publications ...

Walt Whitman's ego seemed impervious to criticism ... part to bring these issues into the national consciousness. The two men became friendly and exchanged correspondence. In Boston for the ...

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 ...

The relationship between the two men appears to have been one of mutual ... William Eleazar Barton. Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

“But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass.” —Walt Whitman From “Proud Music of the Storm” to “Italian Music in Dakota,” the influence of opera on Whitman’s work is more than ...

Walt Whitman, Author, Peter Strauss, Read by Warner Adult $9.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-558-2 This Whitman guide-one of the first six installments in Hachette Audio's new study guide series-is the ...

Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of ...

Source: Whitman's book: The Power of Many Whitman was an avid athlete as a child playing tennis, figure skating, lacrosse, competitive swimming, and she was a great student. At first, she wanted ...

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 ...