Walt Whitman

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His 1865 poem "O Captain! My Captain!" paid homage to President Lincoln, "fallen cold and dead" Whitman $400 J AMERICAN POETRY 2022-01-03 #8546
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong" (Walt) Whitman $1,200 DJ THE MAN, THE POETRY 2020-09-22 #8242
In "Song of Myself" this poet sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" (Walt) Whitman $800 DJ QUOTING POETS 2020-01-08 #8133
He began a poem, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself" (Walt) Whitman $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2019-05-14 #7992
Abraham Lincoln lies "fallen cold and dead" in his poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Walt Whitman $400 J DEAD POETS' SOCIETY 2018-05-14 #7761
"The Good Gray Poet" Walt Whitman $800 DJ OLD POETS' NICKNAMES 2017-10-26 #7619
In an 1855 poem he wrote, "I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven" Walt Whitman FJ POETS 2017-09-22 #7595
Talkin' 'bout lilacs /A Civil War caregiver /The good gray poet (Walt) Whitman $600 J HAIKU ABOUT THE POET 2015-09-25 #7135
On completing the "Deathbed" edition of his great work, he wrote, "L. of G. at last complete--after 33 y'rs of hackling at it" Walt Whitman FJ POETS 2015-02-19 #7009
Nursing in the Civil War / Was unlike what I did before / I wrote of "my captain" Lincoln / O the tears back I was blinkin' (Walt) Whitman $800 J BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS 2015-02-06 #7000
He began a famous poem, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself" Walt Whitman $1,600 DJ POETS & POETRY 2014-07-29 #6892
"Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle" Walt Whitman $2,000 DJ QUOTH THE POET 2012-10-18 #6459
He heard "America Singing":WW Walt Whitman $200 J POETS' MONOGRAMS 2012-03-19 #6336
He published the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" at his own expense & even set some of the type for it (Walt) Whitman $200 J AMERICAN POETS 2011-12-12 #6266
"Bearing the bandages, water & sponge, straight & swift to my wounded I go", he wrote in "The Wound-Dresser" Walt Whitman FJ AMERICAN POETS 2011-05-03 #6142
In "Song of Myself", he asked, "Do I contradict myself?" Whitman $800 DJ POETIC QUESTIONS 2011-04-04 #6121
Fired from a job for laziness, he wrote, "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" Walt Whitman FJ POETS 2007-12-21 #5360
A poem by this American begins, "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd" Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETS 2007-11-19 #5336
"I hear American singing, the varied carols I hear" Walt Whitman $1,200 DJ NAME THE POET 2007-02-19 #5171
The Library of Congress' 2005 exhibit on him had a section titled "Wound Dresser in the Civil War" Walt Whitman FJ POETS 2006-03-28 #4967
2005 marks 150 years since this poet first mowed his "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2005-11-14 #4871
He believed "a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars" Walt Whitman DD $1,600 J POETRY 2004-11-15 #4646
He once described his "Leaves of Grass" as a "language experiment" Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2003-11-13 #4414
His poem "O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln Walt Whitman $1,200 DJ POETRY 2003-10-06 #4386
Because he wrote the scandalous "Leaves of Grass", he was fired from his Interior Department clerkship in 1865 (Walt) Whitman $800 DJ AMERICAN POETS 2002-05-29 #4098
Britannica suggests that the out-of-wedlock children fathered by this "Good Gray Poet" were imaginary Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETIC LICENSE 2002-05-06 #4081
He wrote "Song of the Broad-Axe" & "Song of Myself" Walt Whitman $800 DJ POETS & POETRY 2001-05-02 #3848
"A child said 'What is the grass?'fetching it to me with full hands" Walt Whitman DD $700 DJ NAME THE POET 2001-04-05 #3829
Taking its title from "Song of Myself", the book "Containing Multitudes" traces his influence on recent poetry Walt Whitman $200 DJ POETS & POETRY 2000-11-02 #3719
The leaves of grass at this poet's grave surround a tomb of his own design in Harleigh Cemetery Walt Whitman DD $1,000 DJ POETS & POETRY 2000-04-17 #3606
William O'Connor's pamphlet in defense of this poet was titled "The Good Gray Poet", hence his nickname Walt Whitman $400 J POETS & POETRY 1999-11-23 #3502
"Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt", he wrote in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Walt Whitman $800 DJ HOW POETIC! 1999-11-08 #3491
Allen Ginsberg imagined this poet, who sang of himself, out shopping for bananas Whitman $400 J PEOPLE IN POETRY 1998-10-07 #3238
The poet who penned the line, "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars" Walt Whitman $100 J HOW POETIC 1998-06-02 #3182
This poet's row house in Camden, N.J. displays a rare first edition of his "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman $200 DJ POETS 1996-06-07 #2725
His "One's-Self I Sing" was originally published in 1867 under the title "Inscription" Whitman $600 DJ POETRY 1996-02-06 #2637
In a preface to "Leaves of Grass", he wrote, "A great poem is for ages and ages" Walt Whitman $200 DJ POETRY 1995-09-20 #2538
His poem "I Sing The Body Electric" was initially published without a title in 1855 Walt Whitman $1,000 DJ POETS 1995-05-31 #2488
A music lover, he once said, "But for opera, I could never have written 'Leaves of Grass"' Whitman $200 DJ POETS 1995-05-10 #2473
While writing the original 12 poems of "Leaves of Grass", he built houses for a living Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 1995-04-21 #2460
Before the first edition of "Leaves of Grass", he wrote a novel, "Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate" Walt Whitman $200 DJ POETS 1995-03-07 #2427
In "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd", he compared Lincoln to Venus which "droop'd in the western sky" (Walt) Whitman $1,000 DJ POETS 1995-01-03 #2382
In "Song of Myself", he called grass "the handkerchief of the Lord" Whitman $200 DJ POETRY 1994-05-09 #2241
He wrote "Beat, Beat Drums" & "I Hear America Singing" Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETRY 1993-12-01 #2128
He wrote, "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars" Walt Whitman $200 DJ POETS & POETRY 1993-05-31 #2026
His nickname, "The Good Gray Poet", came from a pamphlet that defended his "Leaves of Grass" (Walt) Whitman $400 DJ POETS' NICKNAMES 1993-03-02 #1962
His poem "Starting from Paumanok" first appeared in "Leaves of Grass" under the title "Proto-Leaf" Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETRY 1992-11-03 #1877
He was fired as a clerk in the Interior Dept. after the secretary heard he'd written "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETRY 1992-02-24 #1731
"Song of Myself", his celebration of himself is almost 1,500 lines long Walt Whitman $300 J POETRY 1991-10-02 #1628
His "O Captain! My Captain!" is a lamentation on the assassination of Lincoln Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 1990-05-07 #1321
This American poet began the 1st poem in his 1st collection with the line "I celebrate myself" Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETS 1990-02-05 #1256
He loved music & once said, "But for opera, I could never have written 'Leaves of Grass'" Walt Whitman $400 DJ POETS 1989-11-28 #1207
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume" Walt Whitman $400 DJ NAME THE POET 1988-11-29 #977
He wrote! "O Captain!" My Captain!" Walt Whitman $300 J POETRY 1988-01-26 #787
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