When Walt Whitman was born, in 1819, democracy had existed in America for less than 50 years—it was still a new experiment. During the time that he was growing up and developing as a poet, he ...

A new exhibition at Bushwick gallery TSA is celebrating two very different men with very similar names: Walt Whitman and Walter White. “The Two States of W.W.,” which opens Jan. 9, is inspired by a ...

"That," said he, "is Walt Whitman, -- with very common goods inside." It was not until his writings became less prophetical, and more consciously literary in their aim, that Lowell and scholars of his ...

Title page and frontispiece spread of the first edition of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [printed for the author by Andrew and Thomas Rome], 1855 (courtesy of the Grolier Club, ...

WHITMAN, WALTER RAY, 67, of Orlando, FL, passed away Monday, June 23, 2003. Born February 1, 1936 in Zellwood, FL to Warren and Myrtle Whitman, he graduated from Apopka High School in 1954. He married ...

‘This is no book” announced Walt Whitman, in the poem that ended the 1860 edition of his “Leaves of Grass”: “Who touches this touches a man.” For some readers, that was rather too close for comfort. A ...

There are 15 tacos in traditional varieties including chicken, chorizo, grilled or blackened fish, and carne asada that range from $6.50 to $10 per, while platters include two tacos and rice and beans ...

Less than a point separated Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson before the final event of Tuesday’s Montgomery County gymnastics championship. Yet only three scorekeepers knew the score entering each team ...

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 ...