This week Page-Turner is publishing a series on Walt Whitman. Previously, Jia Tolentino wrote about an unusual use of Whitman’s poetry at a drug court in Alabama, Dan Piepenbring wrote on Whitman’s ...

Title page and frontispiece spread of the first edition of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [printed for the author by Andrew and Thomas Rome], 1855 (courtesy of the Grolier Club, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though Walt Whitman insisted to friends that the moth was real – and landed on his finger spontaneously – it was a cardboard prop.

When you think of Walt Whitman, who was born on May 31, 1819, you probably picture the white-bearded poet who pioneered free verse and self-published the then-scandalous, now-classic Leaves of Grass.

At first glance, the busy Long Island town of Huntington may not seem like the place for a peaceful, historic walk. It is, however, the birthplace of Walt Whitman, and visitors, besides visiting his ...

Literary society was not quite ready for Walt Whitman when his transformative volume, Leaves of Grass, came out in 1855. Whitman revised and expanded the poetry collection throughout his life and it's ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started. Some critics ...

Walt Whitman in 1869, as photographed by William Kurtz Library of Congress/Feinberg-Whitman Collection Eyeglasses, a walking stick, studio portraits and handwritten drafts of poems are among the ...

Walt Whitman is born to Louisa and Walter Whitman in Huntington Township on Long Island, New York. He is the second of eight surviving children. His father will struggle to support the family as a ...

This year we celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of Walt Whitman; and by “we” I mean all of us who take conscious pleasure in speaking American English. Whitman invented a poetry specific to this ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. INTRODUCTION: Walt Whitman and American Jewry: A Holy Exchange INTRODUCTION: ...