But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary." Small and Large Kindnesses These small ...

But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary." Small and Large Kindnesses These small ...

Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg ...

Walter Whitman Jr. was an influential American poet, essayist, and journalist, best known for his groundbreaking work Leaves ...

But in either case, Ed Folsom, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, says he sees them as the beginning of a complex allegory of the Civil War that the poet would continue developing in the ...

The 3rd edition is banished by puritan mind of American people, it was considered immoral and Whitman gained a reputation of obscenity and homosexuality. During the civil war he visited wounded ...

The Walt Whitman Collection contains three autograph manuscripts ... The third manuscript seems to refer to the camps of American soldiers that Whitman visited during the Civil War. Included with all ...

Walt Whitman was born on May 31 ... where Whitman attended the Brooklyn public schools. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Whitman vowed to live a “purged” and “cleansed” life. He worked as a freelance ...

The story of Walt Whitman’s remarkable life (1819-1892), the turbulent era in which he lived, and the timeless poetry he created. Interweaving narration and dramatic readings with captivating ...

Born in 1819, Walt Whitman grew up in Brooklyn and Long Island ... and tended wounded soldiers in Washington D.C. during the Civil War. In the early 1870s, Whitman settled in Camden, New Jersey, to ...