Walt
Whitman
Birth and Early Career
The Journalist, 1844
The Brooklyn Eagle
“Pulp Fiction”
New Orleans
Influences: Literature
and Music
Emerson
Literary Acquaintances
Whitman and Phrenology
Whitman in 1854
Leaves of Grass, 1855
Leaves of Grass, 1855
Whitman’s Themes
Whitman’s Poetic
Techniques
From “Song of Myself”
Whitman’s Use of Language
Reviews: Praise
Reviews: Praise
Reviews and Protests
Early Editions of Leaves
of Grass
Leaves of Grass, 1856
Leaves of Grass, 1860
Civil War
One Wounded Soldier’s
View
Whitman and Lincoln
Walt Whitman, Civil
Servant
The Good Gray Poet
Later Editions of Leaves
of Grass
Leaves of Grass, 1872
Specimen Days and Collect,
1882
328 Mickle Street, Camden
Leaves of Grass, 1889 and
1891
The Poet at Home
Credits