Walt Whitman, a revolutionary poet of the 19th century, innovated the concept of free verse while championing individualism.

This Friday, May 31, marks the 200th birthday of poet Walt Whitman. Events all over the city are commemorating the legendary writer, who lived and worked in Brooklyn for many years, and is, of course, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You don't have to like poetry to like Walt Whitman. You don't even have to know of Walt Whitman to know of his poetry. Does the ...

At first glance, 99 Ryerson Street in Brooklyn doesn’t look like much. But this little house by Wallabout was where famed 19th century and beloved poet Walt Whitman lived in the summer the first ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...