“Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy,” an exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York (through September 15), tracks Whitman’s life and work through the immense changes that would shape the course ...

Walt Whitman captured the essence of American democracy, individualism, and human connection in verses that remain startlingly relevant more than a century after his death, demonstrating how genuine ...

Allen, Gay Wilson. The New Walt Whitman Handbook. New York: NYU Press, 1975. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of ...

Ms. New directs and hosts PBS’s “Poetry in America.” In 1865, the poet Walt Whitman asked: O what shall I hang on the chamber walls? And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls, To adorn ...