In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated.

"War" takes a look at how the Civil War shaped Walt Whitman's life and poetry. Minneapolis. 5°F. eEdition. The Latest. 31 minutes ago. Trump says inflation isn’t his No. 1 issue.

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...

The "Specimen Days" Civil War section ends with a handful of essays summing up Whitman's experiences in the war and his conclusions about its meaning and results. Whitman titled one essay "The Real ...

This is most definitely not the Walt Whitman you encountered in high school, or the "Good Gray Poet" you thought you understood in college. In fact, forget virtually everything you thought you ...

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War Robert Roper, . . Walker, $28 (421pp) ISBN 978-0-8027-1553-1 ...

The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War Roy Morris, JR.. Oxford University Press, USA, $25 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-19-512482-8 ...

Leaves of Grass devotees, explore another side of Walt Whitman in this seminar led by Dr. Kenneth Price of the Walt Whitman Archive and Civil War Washington. As he wrote his seminal collection of ...

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated.