In fact, Leaves of Grass may be comparable to ... In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" or just "Walt Whitman" before assuming the title "Song of ...

The author of Leaves of Grass had loomed so large in ... two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other publications on the same inexhaustible theme ...

The Department's holdings contain a selection of works that document Whitman’s critical reception over the hundred years following the first publication of "Leaves of Grass ... to Mila Maynard’s brief ...

Gems from Walt Whitman. Selected by Elizabeth Porter Gould. Philadephia, David McKay. 1889. First edition, scarce. David McKay's variorum edition of Leaves of Grass ("including variorum readings of ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social ... The evolution of a book - and its author. Many of the poems Whitman added to Leaves of Grass in its different editions reflect changes both in ...

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 is considered one of the greatest ... In 1855, he self-published his greatest work of poetry, “Leaves of Grass,” ...