But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary." Small and Large Kindnesses These small ...

But in either case, Ed Folsom, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, says he sees them as the beginning of a complex allegory of the Civil War that the poet would continue developing in the ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies topics including the Civil War, the impact of war on soldiers and their families, American literary history, the history of New York City ...

Walt Whitman called it the War of Attempted Secession ... places and events surrounding the Civil War. Explore each episode and watch clips from the film.

there are few better sources of inspiration than Whitman, who spent more than three years volunteering his time and energies ...

In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman ... the United States itself in the years leading to the Civil War. Whitman rearranged the poems in the 1867 edition to emphasize ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...

This engaging film tells the story of Walt Whitman’s remarkable life (1819-1892), the turbulent era in which he lived, and the timeless poetry he created. Interweaving narration and dramatic ...