As Michael Robertson, a professor of English at the College of New Jersey, points out in Worshipping Walt (Princeton University Press, 2008), his recent study of Walt Whitman and his disciples ...

When the aspiring poet Horace Traubel met an aging Walt Whitman ... commonly directed at Whitman’s disregard for form and his embrace of free love. But the transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

A statue of the famous 19th-century poet Walt Whitman is set to be removed from ... he incorporated both views of transcendentalism and realism in his works and was often called the father of ...

Walt Whitman spent half his life writing and ... Or, as Ifill speculates, the transcendentalist poet may have been brought down to earth the victim of plain, old contract fraud.