Author: Beth Devine

Hi everyone! I have my own campus radio show, and every week I play songs that relate to a certain theme. I was thinking about doing a show dedicated to Walt Whitman. Do you all have any song suggestions? If

In class today, we discussed Whitman’s controversial perspective on enlightenment, the divine, and humans’ relationship with nature. His sexual descriptions of the union of the body, soul, and nature and portrayal of embodied epiphanies promote the embracement of bodily pleasures,

In Folsom and Price’s biography of Whitman, they describe his visit to Fredericksburg during the Civil War. Initially jolted by the sight of his brother’s name in the casualty roster for the Battle of Fredericksburg, Whitman traveled from Brooklyn to