PHILADELPHIA, March 26 -- Walt Whitman, the poet, died at 6:43 o'clock this evening at his home, 328 Mochel Street, Camden. He began to sink at 4:30, and grew gradually weaker until the end.

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 ...

But he never looked older or wearier than in Thomas Eakins’ 1891 portrait taken a year before the poet’s death. The celebrated ... tired even of being Walt Whitman. “There was a period ...

These are the five Philadelphia-area bridges that NTSB says will need an assessment: Benjamin Franklin Bridge, built in 1926 Delaware River Turnpike Bridge, built in 1956 Walt Whitman Bridge ...