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

I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings ... I bring to you no proud poem,' " I replied. O'Connor cried out, in his vehement way, "That's so, Walt, -- that's so!" "I think you are right ...

Life is short, and it’s better to live in the ... For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Appearing in Walt ...

With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets ... But even without its mention in the film, Walt Whitman's ...

His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary ... Just as the book was going to press, he inserted a short new poem about Lincoln's death.

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 ...

But you won’t find them in many text books, because high school poetry units tend to focus on dead poets, like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe ... by Sonia Sanchez Adrian Neibauer’s ...

On Saturday, October 26, from 4-7pm, Compagnia de'Colombari’s Whitman on Walls! (WoW!) will come to Queens in collaboration ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook ... Beginning on the next page, Whitman turns directly to the disaster confronting the Union, addressing this fragmentary poem to “Libertad.” ...

In the second episode of The Long and Short, Mark and Seamus turn to Walt Whitman's ‘Song of Myself’, from Leaves of Grass (1855), for Mark ‘one of the most exciting things literature has to offer’.

246 Old Walt Whitman Road ... Interpretive Center Here visitors can delve deeply into Whitman’s life and poetry through a series of engaging exhibits that trace the poet’s development from ...

So often misidentified as a confessional poet, she actually lived and wrote in the tradition of Walt ... of certain poems, contending she goes too far, finding implications in words she believes have ...