Later regarded as one of America's finest poets, Walt Whitman had already published his famous Leaves of Grass when he visited his wounded brother at Fredericksburg. Shocked at the carnage of the ...

“A glimpse into the workshop“ is how Walt Whitman described his “blue book,“ the author’s own intimate copy of LEAVES OF GRASS,with his many notes, revisions, and comments on his master work. Now ...

This then is life -- Roots and leaves -- The shapes arise -- The outsetting bard -- In paths untrodden -- Emblematic blades -- Loving comrade -- Over the carnage -- Ships at sea -- Ebbing tide -- ...

Taking a breather during an afternoon romp, poet Mark Doty describes looking up at his lover only to find himself face to face with Walt Whitman. He doesn’t mean this figuratively. “It’s pointless, at ...

Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A world poet-a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. He was a part of the transition between transcendentalism ...

I FIRST made acquaintance with Whitman’s writings when a newspaper notice of the earliest edition of Leaves of Grass reached me, in Paris, in the autumn of 1855. It was the most exhilarating piece of ...

The big embarrassment of Walt Whit­man’s later years was not his poverty (groups of writers in England and America had to take up a collection) but the cult that arose around him. Ardent followers ...

San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, Texas’s Modern-Art Pioneer There Will Be Bloodlust in One Battle After Another Riefenstahl Raises the Riddle of Artistic Heroism Weapons Refuses Political Weaponization ...