A 2018 Notable Poetry Book for Children (National Council of Teachers of English) Introduce your children to the beautiful words of classic American poet, Walt Whitman. Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman makes the work engaging and easy to understand. Walt Whitman is considered by many to be one of the most prolific poets in American history. What better time to introduce your children to the written word than now? This collection of thirty-five of Walt's best works has been carefully curated for kids. Each piece of work is lovingly illustrated, and are both presented and explained by New York University professor Karen Karbenier, PhD, a primary authority Whitman's poetry. Walt Whitman includes enlightening commentary for each poem, definitions of key words, and a foreword by the expert so that kids, or even parents new to poems, will understand. Starting off with "I Hear America Singing," the collection includes excerpts from "Song of Myself," "O Captain! My Captain!", poems from Leaves of Grass, and many more thought-provoking, descriptive, and kid-friendly selections.

Encyclopedia of British Writers: 1800 to the Present, Second Edition profiles almost 900 of the finest British poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, and other writers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. All entries in this new edition of the award-winning encyclopedia have been fully updated and expanded, almost 100 new entries have been added, and more than 100 new 'Critical Analysis' sections have been added to major writers. Each entry includes essential details about the author's life and work and suggestions for further reading. Entries on major writers include a 'Critical Analysis' section that discusses one or more works in greater detail. Writers from Ireland and nations of the British Commonwealth are also included. A valuable addition to any high school literature classroom or library, this comprehensive two-volume encyclopedia also features an author timeline, a general bibliography, and entries on key terms and movements of the century. New entries include: Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Charles Babbage, Anne Bronte, Olaudah Equiano, Susan Fletcher, Nick Hornby, Hanif Kuresishi, C.S. Lewis, Frank O'Connor, Beatrix Potter, Terry Pratchett, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Dorothy Wordsworth.

Published in conjunction with an eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue presents the story of Walt Whitman’s coming of age as a poet through a unique assemblage of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts, many never before seen, from the Whitman Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, archives such as the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library's Berg Collection, private family collections, and forgotten treasures from Bryn Mawr College's Special Collections and the Brooklyn College Library.