When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in ... where the future president occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family ...

In these interview excerpts from scholars, explore Whitman's calling as a poet, and the idea of a national poet. Ed Folsom, a literature professor and Whitman specialist at the University of Iowa ...

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 ...