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Walt Whitman: Where to Start Reading Him (Explained)

Walt Whitman with Leaves of Grass book, a guide to where to start reading his poetry.

Introduction Walt Whitman was a 19th-century American poet best known for Leaves of Grass, a self-published collection he kept revising for nearly four decades, and for pioneering free verse poetry without regular rhyme or meter. If you’re new to him, the honest answer to “where do I start” is: not with all 400-plus poems he … Read more