
23-Poet Walt Whitman, seen in an undated portrait, was faulted in 1965 for his 'flashy imitation of ideas' by Henry James, then a young critic for The Nation. (AP Photo/Whitman Gallery, File) WHITMAN GALLERY FILE/AP/HO Show More Show Less 9 of9 ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, AUG. The book is scheduled for a Mapublication. "Walt Whitman - The Song of Himself", by Jerome Loving, is written from old newspaper files and is the first full-length critical biography of the poet in 40 years.
Photo courtesy of PBS Photo courtesy of PBS Show More Show Less 8 of9 FILE- A new biographer of poet Walt Whitman, seen in this 1840s file photo, is set to publish early poems he says have not been seen since their original newspaper publication. (PHOTO UNDATED) CREDIT: FILE PHOTO Show More Show Less 7 of9 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on PBS documents the life and career of Walt Whitman. The first installment fills much of the left two columns of this front page Show More Show Less 6 of9 Walt Whitman, poet, died in Camden, N.J. Show More Show Less 5 of9 Walt Whitman's "Manly Health and Training" series was published in the New York Atlas in 13 installments in 1858. The first installment fills much of the left two columns of this front page. (National Archives via The New York Times) - EDITORIAL USE ONLY NATIONAL ARCHIVES/HO Show More Show Less 4 of9 Walt Whitman's "Manly Health and Training" series was published in the New York Atlas in 13 installments in 1858. A nearly 47,000-word journalistic series written by Whitman called ?Manly Health and Training,? which had been lost for more than 150 years, will be published online by a scholarly journal in 2016, in what some experts are calling the biggest new Whitman discovery in decades.

Gary Coronado/Staff Show More Show Less 3 of9 In an undated handout photo, Walt Whitman in 1887. Gary Coronado/Staff Show More Show Less 2 of9 Zachary Turpin, a 32-year-old doctoral candidate in English at the University of Houston, discovered a 13-part prose series called "Manly Health and Training," by the poet Walt Whitman.

1 of9 UH doctoral student Zachary Turpin unearthed a serial essay on healthy living by poet Walt Whitman.
