I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings ... I bring to you no proud poem,' " I replied. O'Connor cried out, in his vehement way, "That's so, Walt, -- that's so!" "I think you are right ...

In a curious twist of history, Andrew Carnegie, that titan of industry, once called Walt Whitman the greatest ... and wrote Leaves of Grass. Whitman wrote many poems chronicling the effects ...

2 Nearly everyone agrees that Walt Whitman is America’s greatest poet. But many Americans agree reluctantly or grudgingly and, perhaps because the influential contemporary critics of poetry—“the new ...