The 1872 edition spread these Civil War poems throughout the book, suggesting that the war formed an essential part of the American character. In 1881 Whitman was 62 years old and contemplating ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started ... and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated.

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 ... poet with this American Jewish poet, as ...

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 ... poet with this American Jewish poet, as ...