Robert Burleigh and Sterling Hundley, creators of the new book “O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War” to discuss Whitman’s legacy and the history behind the ...

Burleigh tells the story of the poet and of the president he so admired, sprinkling quotes from Whitman and lines of his poetry throughout: “Walt saw everything: the tall and lanky body, the ...

Robert Burleigh, a 1957 graduate of DePauw University, is the author of O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War. The book is published by Harry N. Abrams. A synopsis ...

O Captain, My Captain: Whitman's Lincoln takes us to the Camden, New Jersey home of one of America's most influential and original voices, Walt Whitman. Often called the father of free verse, Walt ...

They come from a series of advice columns titled "Manly Health and Training" which Whitman — better known for Leaves of Grass and "O Captain! My Captain!" — wrote under the pseudonym Mose Velsor.

Similarly, in "O Captain! My Captain!," Lincoln is not the rugged but vulnerable politician Whitman enthuses over in his prose — he is the brave pilot of a storm-tossed ship, facing death rather than ...

In “O Captain! My Captain!” Whitman famously eulogized Abraham Lincoln as the fallen leader of the great ship of America, which he called a “vessel grim and daring.” ...

Walt Whitman, an American poet, wrote “O Captain! My Captain!” to honour Lincoln following his assassination, seeing the President as the captain of a ship who, in the process of bringing a ...

Walt Whitman, an American poet, wrote “O Captain! My Captain!” to honour Lincoln following his assassination, seeing the President as the captain of a ship who, in the process of bringing a ...