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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...