His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman ... told him he would like to buy some milk, Whitman gave him some change, and the young man burst into tears. Later the soldier ...

Walt Whitman's ego seemed impervious to criticism, and his self-promotion — writing anonymous reviews of his own book — suggests total self-assurance. There was, however, one man whose praise ...

Perhaps some future tilter at windmills will attempt to prove that the man we know as Walt Whitman was an uncultured impostor, who had obtained possession of a mass of powerful but fragmentary ...