Within the journal are entries covering Whitman's everyday life in the Marine Corps and his interactions with Kathy and other family members.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

However, there is also strong evidence that Whitman's mother intervened and did much to derail their relationship.

* 1855 – In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.

The Wound-Dresser ( 1988 ): John Adams's setting of Walt Whitman's poem, " The Wound-Dresser ", which Whitman wrote after visiting wounded soldiers during the American Civil War.

Other Friedman tunes include " The Ballad of Charles Whitman ," in which Friedman lampooned Whitman's sniper attack from the University of Texas at Austin's Main Building tower on August 1, 1966.

In 1940, he had married Whitman's mother Margaret, who was then 17 years old.

The marriage of Whitman's parents was marred by violence: Whitman Sr. was an admitted authoritarian who provided for his family, but demanded near perfection from all of them.

Whitman's academic achievements were encouraged by his parents, yet any indication of failure or a lethargic attitude would be met with discipline — often physical — from his father.

Whitman's initial 18-month tour of duty in 1959 and 1960 was exemplary, and he earned a Good Conduct Medal, a Sharpshooter's Badge and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal.

This last hobby earned Whitman his first encounter with police when, shortly after his enrollment at the University, he and two friends were observed poaching a deer: a passer-by noted Whitman's license plate number and reported the incident to police.

The trio were in the act of butchering the animal in the shower at Whitman's dormitory when arrested.

Shortly after his enrollment in the University of Texas, Whitman met and courted a fellow student named Kathleen Frances Leissner ; a teaching student two years his junior to whom he had been introduced by Francis Schuck, Jr. Leissner was Whitman's first serious girlfriend, and he reportedly went to great lengths to both attract and keep her attentions.

The couple chose the 22nd wedding anniversary of Charles's parents as the date for their wedding and Whitman's own family drove from Florida to Texas to attend the union, in which Whitman's younger brother Patrick served as best man.

Although Whitman's grades improved somewhat during his second and third semesters at the University of Texas, the Marine Corps deemed his academic performance unacceptable and returned Whitman to active duty in February, 1963.

In May 1966, Whitman's mother announced her intentions to divorce her husband due to his continuous violence.

The move prompted Whitman's youngest brother, John, to also opt to leave Lake Worth and move to Austin with his mother.

Shortly after arriving in Austin, Whitman's mother found work in a cafeteria and moved into her own apartment.

Townsley likely observed Whitman's trunk and may have asked to see his University work identification.

A young secretary named Charlotte Darehshori ran to help Boyer and Huffman only to find herself under fire from Whitman ; Darehshori crouched beneath the concrete base of a flagpole for an hour-and-a-half, shielding herself from Whitman's view.

" Whitman also lamented his actions in his self-penned journal, in which he resolved to be a good husband and not an abusive husband as his father had been.

On the eve of the shootings at the University Tower, Whitman reaffirmed his appraisive feelings for his wife in reference to previous entries he had written in his self-penned journal regarding Kathy.

Jasmuheen makes appearances at New Age conferences worldwide, has hosted spiritual retreats in Thailand and sells many self-penned books and audios on her website.

Turner used Bullock's voice on a recording of his self-penned song, " A Fool In Love ", to lay down a guide track for a male singer who did not attend the recording.

This was an album of mostly self-penned acoustic, country-flavored songs about love and life and was closely followed by Have a Good Time For Me, also on Atlantic.

But then I had voted for him, so he owed me something .” Rushton also appeared on the original flexi-discs of skits, squibs and invective that “ Private Eye ” gave away, having success with two self-penned songs: “ Neasden ” (“ you won ’ t be sorry that you breezed in.

Critics then determined that the ideas mainly stemmed from Watson ’ s beliefs because Rosalie later entitled a self-penned article I am a Mother of Behaviorist Sons.

In 1959, Darin recorded the self-penned " Dream Lover ", a ballad that became a multi-million seller.

Released in 1988, the album launched five top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 including the number-one single, the self-penned " My Prerogative ", which became, along with " Every Little Step " and the title track, signature hits for the performer.

Walker only appears on two tracks, his self-penned " The Derelict " ( which was still apparently unfinished on release according to some reports ) and a cover of Jr. Walker & the All Stars ' Motown classic "( I'm A ) Roadrunner ".

The album Sails of Silver saw the band moving away from traditional material to a greater focus on self-penned songs, many with historical or pseudo-folk themes.

After the term " singer-songwriter " was first coined in 1965, it was applied retroactively during the late 1960s to the likes of Dylan, Paxton, and other folk-rooted artists, whose repertoires had transitioned from traditional to self-penned material during the early 1960s.

Of these secondary influences, arguably the most important was the self-penned, folk-influenced material of San Francisco's The Beau Brummels.

It is of little surprise, therefore, that by January 1966, he had recorded the self-penned hit " Sunshine Superman " with a full electric backing band.

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

The band's folk influences, lack of experience with rock music forms, and Beatleseque instrumentation, all combined to color both their self-penned material and their folk derived repertoire.

It uses traditional British music and self-penned compositions in a traditional style, and is played on a combination of traditional and rock instruments.

After a further self-penned hit, " Hubble Bubble ( Toil And Trouble )," the band struck gold with " Do Wah Diddy Diddy ", a cover of The Exciters ' minor hit earlier that year.

Her first self-penned song to crack the Top Ten, 1966 ’ s " Dear Uncle Sam ”, was among the very first recordings to recount the human costs of the Vietnam War.

By 1966, this new version of The ' N Betweens had recorded a promo single of the Otis Redding track, " Security ," and a self-penned song, " Evil Witchman ," released on Highland Records.

The Beatles influence on rock music and popular culture was, and remains, immense. Their commercial success started an almost immediate wave of changes — including a shift from US global dominance of rock and roll to UK acts, from soloists to groups, from professional songwriters to self-penned songs, and to changes in fashion.

In 1992, the band released a fourth studio album, entitled High on the Happy Side, which spawned the Number 1 hit single " Goodnight Girl "-the only self-penned chart-topping single they have had to date.

The session will be followed in the coming days by exclusive, unplugged versions of some of his most popular self-penned songs.