Calamus is a sequence of poems by Walt Whitman about camaraderie, friendship, and love among men. These innovative short works explore same-sex relationships in ways well ahead of their time and ...

Walt Whitman offers ... figure of the era, praised Whitman highly, as did many other reviewers. Whitman published a new edition of the book in 1860 containing poems that he hoped would help ...

This engaging film tells the story of Walt Whitman’s remarkable life (1819-1892), the turbulent era in which he lived, and the timeless poetry he created. Interweaving narration and dramatic ...

Even in this photograph, however, we would have doubts as to which voice in Whitman’s poetry belongs to that ... tired even of being Walt Whitman. “There was a period early on in my career ...

The result is a beautiful and moving film cycle. Walt Whitman was a late bloomer. By the early 1850s he had published poems, short stories, and a novel, but all of them were thoroughly ...

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 ...