From modern poetry to romantic poetry, and poems about heartbreak ... it is the journey itself that drives them. When I read Walt Whitman’s poetry as a teenager, I did not know how close ...

An icon of his time, Lord Byron (aka George Gordon) is one of the best-known English poets of the early 19th-century Romantic ...

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 ...

O'Connor's pamphlet was followed, two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other publications on the same inexhaustible theme have appeared since ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry Alright, yes, a lot of Romantic poetry is dated ... So, if you want to appreciate poetry, you have to respect the roots. Buy at Amazon Modern American poetry ...

Winged Monologues” Author: TamaliNeogi Year of Publication: 2024 Name of the Publisher: Authors press Price: Rs.295 In her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

House museums dedicated to literary giants like Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne and ... some 1,800 pages of his early short stories and poems were found in a broom closet at Rowan Oak.