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 ...

Part Two: The Civil War and Beyond (1861-1892) Special | 1h 29m 20s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Whitman moves to Washington to care for Civil War soldiers but grows disillusioned.

At the conclusion of the Civil War, the canonical poet Walt Whitman said that the “real war will never get in the books.” ...

This moving picture book biography from Golio and Lewis explores the work that poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) took on during the U.S. Civil War. In New York City, where he befriends ferry pilots ...

Walt Whitman’s experiences as a. No paywalls. No subscriptions. ... However, he also served as a nurse during the Civil War and his experiences influenced his later work as a poet.

Walt Whitman called it the War of Attempted Secession. Confederate General Joseph Johnston called it the War Against the States. By whatever name, it was unquestionably the most important event in ...

As long as there have been poets, they have been writing war elegies. In this episode, Mark and Seamus discuss responses to the American Civil War (Walt Whitman), both world wars (W.B. Yeats, Wilfred ...

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

To appreciate the act of offering comfort for the victims of war, there are few better sources of inspiration than Walt Whitman, who spent more than three years volunteering his time during the U ...