The poet was viewed as a prophet in his own times In December 1890, the elderly Walt Whitman received in the mail an unusual Christmas greeting from his admirer William Sloane Kennedy, a Harvard ...

The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, the lost novel of Walt Whitman, published by University of Iowa Press (image courtesy University of Iowa Press) English scholar Zachary Turpin has made a ...

When Walt Whitman began conceiving his great volume of poetry, “Leaves of Grass,” in the 1850s, American democracy was in serious danger over the issue of slavery. As we celebrate National Poetry ...