Walt Whitman

[David Lockmiller]

Walt Whitman

The New York Times reports today: "Tomorrow we celebrate the 200th birthday of the American literary giant who sought to bring his rhythmic prose-poetry to the masses."

When [Whitman] lived in Washington during the Civil War, he wrote of the wounded in military hospitals for several New York papers, including the New York Times.

Steve Griffith - Oakland, CA (comment to story published by New York Times on Oct. 24, 2018)

Whenever I enter or exit the DuPont Metro station in Washington, D.C., I am struck and touched by these Whitman lines from his Civil War poem, “The Wound Dresser,” inscribed into the surrounding curved granite walls: ....I thread my way through the hospitals; The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night—some are so young; Some suffer so much—I recall the experience sweet and sad.

When Walt Whitman Reported for the New York Times

Be sure to follow the last hyperlink in this story to Whitman's New York Times story published August 16, 1863 (a month and a half following the Battle of Gettysburg).