This author's "Calamus" poems are the most overt proof of his homosexuality.
A poem by this author gave EM Forster the title "A Passage to India." A collection by this author originally contained twelve poems but was updated into a final "deathbed edition." This author's "Calamus" poems are the most overt proof of his homosexuality. This author's experience nursing wounds during the  (*) Civil War inspired his collection Drum-Taps. He wrote about a "powerful, western, fallen star" and mentioned that "our fearful trip is won" in two poems memorializing Abraham Lincoln. For 10 points, name this author of "Song of Myself" and "O Captain, My Captain", two poems from Leaves of Grass.
A poem by this author gave EM Forster the title "A Passage to India."
Walt Whitman