A CT history professor revisits the memorable election of 1884, 'one of the dirtiest in U.S. history,' which inspired a poem ...

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 ...

Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town ... he called the "ballad style" of poetry, by which he meant poetry ...

Walt Whitman offers ... figure of the era, praised Whitman highly, as did many other reviewers. Whitman published a new edition of the book in 1860 containing poems that he hoped would help ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried ... occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn ...

Whitman wrote several poetic responses to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He came to detest his most famous, ‘O Captain! My Captain!’, and in ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd’ Lincoln ...

246 Old Walt Whitman Road ... and encounter the life and works of the most powerful poet in world literature, America’s own Walt Whitman. Whitman was born here on May 31, 1819 and in 1949 ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Walt Whitman was a late bloomer ... for its frank sexuality and innovative style. Whitman more or less invented what is now called “free verse”—poetry that does not use rhyme and meter.

One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los ...

for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted to cast a shadow over the poet himself; for this reason, it is easy to see why critics evinced from an early ...

The longstanding gripe about Dylan’s tendency to deconstruct and rework his music until it’s virtually unrecognisable live is ...