A steel engraving of Walt Whitman in his 30s from the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1855. CORBIS A newly discovered Walt Whitman poem has been rescued from obscurity. Wendy Katz, a ...

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LOS ANGELES — Scholars have for decades tried to identify a puzzling celestial event in one of Walt Whitman’s poems from his collection “Leaves of Grass.” Now they’ve done so, using clues from a famed ...

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Wendy Katz, a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was painstakingly going through newspaper archives at the Library of Congress, turning page after page for her research on the advent of ...