"Drum Taps," by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman was american poet, essayist and journalist (1819-1892).

"Leaves of Grass," by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman was american poet, essayist and journalist (1819-1892).

"Poems," by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman was american poet, essayist and journalist (1819-1892).

"The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman," by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman was american poet, essayist and journalist (1819-1892).

"The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman," by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman was american poet, essayist and journalist (1819-1892).

"The Wound Dresser," by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman was american poet, essayist and journalist (1819-1892).

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was a popular poet, author of the influential novel Oroonoko, and one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theater. Behn led an unusually active and eventful life for a woman of her era, traveling widelyto Surinam in 1663 and to Antwerp in 1666, where Charles II sent her as a spy during the Anglo-Dutch war. Returning to England she spent some time in a debtor's prison and subsequently devoted herself to writing, publishing numerous poems and almost twenty plays between 1670 and 1689.

Because of the overtly political nature of her work, much of...