Henry Bryan Binns 
A Life of Walt Whitman (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This 1905 biography of the great American poet, written thirteen years after his death, was notable for the speculative introduction of a New Orleans romance between Whitman and a Creole woman—an affair that most biographers reject today.  Still, Binns’s volume remains one of the foundational books of Whitman scholarship—a book striving to tell of Whitman the man without placing a definite value on his work.

About the author

Henry Bryan Binns (1873-1923) was an English poet and historian.  He is best remembered for A Life of Walt Whitman (1905), Abraham Lincoln (1907), and The Adventure (1911), an epic verse continuing the saga of Ulysses.