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Several years ago PBS sponsored a series of hour long television programs on American poets, including Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. It's an excellent introduction to their life, times, and work.
The video is available at this link. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page to access it.
Use the following as a username and password
Username: occ.chat@yahoo.com
Password: poetry
The Walt Whitman Archive is, quite simply, the best page on any American writer. Scholarly yet accessible, it contains the kind of information that scholars would have to travel for months and do years of research to obtain. And it's all there for you with the click of a mouse. This is the real potential of the web
Dickinson
"But wait! I thought Whitman was THE American Bard . . .?"
To paraphrase Whitman himself -- "American poetry is large . . . it contains multitudes . . . " And it definitely contains Dickinson.
The video is available at this link. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page to access it.
Use the following as a username and password
Username: occ.chat@yahoo.com
Password: poetry
Like Whitman, there's a fantastic site on Dickinson titled the Dickinson Electronic Archives. It's an online compendium of manuscripts, essays, and other information on Dickinson and her times.
Links
Library of Congress Whitman Homepage
Facsimile Autobiography (written in Whitman's own hand)
© 2007 David Bordelon