Much of the talk was about himself and his poems, in every particular ... periodicals under his full name, Walter Whitman, after which he discarded "Walter" for Walt); editing newspapers and ...

The first edition of the book names no author on its cover or title ... In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" or just "Walt Whitman" before assuming ...

His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman ... where the future president occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and ...

Seemingly answering the call Whitman voiced in :The Eighteenth Presidency!" for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted ... Abraham Lincoln and Walt ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook ... Beginning on the next page, Whitman turns directly to the disaster confronting the Union, addressing this fragmentary poem to “Libertad.” ...