His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary ... he inserted a short new poem about Lincoln's death. A few weeks later, he wrote a longer elegy, "When ...

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 was a 19th century American poet who ... only one year before Emerson’s death. This time in Concord, Whitman describes dinner at Emerson’s home with friends and family, where ...

Walt Whitman's ego seemed impervious to criticism ... He had a crisis of faith after the untimely death of his first wife. Traveling to England, he met the writers Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Coleridge ...