Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman. 5/23/2020 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Join host Elisa New to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. Aired 05/23/2020 | Expires ...

A few days ago, I unfurrowed my brow and abandoned my desk. I bought a $3 copy of "Leaves of Grass" and headed outdoors. Like millions of others since 1855, I fell instantly into the words of Walt ...

Walt Whitman, who was born 200 years ago this year, is almost certainly the greatest American poet. In many ways, he is also the most enigmatic. Before 1855, the year that Whitman published Leaves ...

I know there are few words less redolent of Democracy than poetry. What is poetry, after all, but language at its highest pitch, words in their most mysterious register, men wearing pretentiously ...

Long before the current wave of book banning, Walt Whitman’s poetry classic was banned from libraries across the United States. The backlash even cost Whitman his Interior Department job.

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A first edition of poet Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” will be auctioned off Nov. 15 by auction house Skinner and is expected to sell for more than $30,000, according to Devon Eastland ...

Much is known about the life of Brooklyn literary king Walt Whitman, but can you locate the residence where he penned his opus? In Wallabout, Whitman wrote the first version of his greatest and best ...

Bonhams will feature a copy of Leaves of Grass signed by Walt Whitman at its New York auction of extraordinary books and manuscripts on March 12, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the poet’s ...