I first made acquaintance with ... the great statesman; in the old tenement opposite, in a bare and desolate back room, up three flights of stairs, quite alone, lived the poet. Walt led the ...

among the famous birthdays for May 31. Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...