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 ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

She will present her book "I Brought the War with ... to anyone going through a break-up. In some poems, Olds’s divorce ...

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil ... Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated. Just as the book was ...

Urdahl started telling Minnesota’s story in his book, “Three Paths to Glory,” which was published in 2015. In it, Urdahl focused on Minnesota regiments from the beginning of the American Civil War to ...