Walt Whitman Av Walt Whitman

<P>From the highly controversial <B>Leaves of Grass</B>, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic <B>Captain, oh my captain</B> immortalised in the film <B>Dead Poets Society</B>, this short collection is the ideal introduction to the poetry of Walt Whitman.<br><br>One of the greats, he was celebrated both during his lifetime and ever since - he is widely considered to be the father of free verse. During the American Civil War he worked in hospitals caring for the wounded, and his own funeral in 1892 was a public event.<br><br>In the words of the modernist poet Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman was ''America''s poet . . . he <I>is </I>America''.</P>