A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on Walt Whitman, favoring signed articles by known scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Asselineau, Roger Publisher's blurb for The Evolution of Walt Whitman (Univ. of Iowa Press)
Baker, David. On Whitman's "Time to Come," New England Review, Summer 2002 (removed from findarticles.com)
Belasco, Susan and Kenneth Price Spiders, the Web, and Dickinson & Whitman. from The Classroom Electric, 2001
Belasco, Susan. Foreground and Apprentices: Dickinson and Whitman, from The Classroom Electric, 2001
Erkkila, Betsy Publisher's blurb for Whitman the Political Poet (Oxford Univ.Press, 1989)
Erkkila, Betsy Brief article on Erkkila's reading of Whitman, by Nakia S. Pope
Folsom, Ed and Kenneth M. Price. Extended, detailed biography of Walt Whitman, from the Whitman Archive
Folsom, Ed Whitman's Manuscript Drafts of "Song Of Myself" Leaves of Grass, 1855. Part of The Classroom Electric: Whitman and American Culture, 2001
Folsom, Ed Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the Civil War Part of The Classroom Electric: Whitman and American Culture, 2001
Folsom, Ed Walt Whitman's "The Sleepers" Part of The Classroom Electric: Whitman and American Culture, 2001
Grossman, Jay with Geoffrey Saunders Schramm Brothers in Arms: Masculinity in Whitman's Civil War. Part of The Classroom Electric: Whitman and American Culture, 2001
Helms, Alan and Hershel Parker. An exchange between professors Alan Helms and Hershel Parker occasioned by Parker's article "The Real 'Live Oak, with Moss': Straight Talk about Whitman's 'Gay Manifesto."' Whitman Archive, from September 1996 issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature (51:2)(removed)
Helms, Alan. "Whitman's 'Live Oak with Moss'" Courtesy Whitman Archive, from Robert K. Martin, ed., The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life After the Life (Univ. of Iowa Press, 1992)(removed)
Kaplan, Justin Walt Whitman A Life,1980 Excerpt from Chapter 1, Harper Collins
Karbiener, Karen. "British Romanticism and the Americanization of Walt Whitman" [William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Howitt]. PhD dissertation, Columbia, 2001
Knoper, Randall Reviews two books on Whitman: Vivian R Pollak's The Erotic Whitman (Univ. of California Press, 2000); and Joann P. Krieg's Whitman and the Irish (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2000). College Literature, Winter 2003
Lawrence, D.H. D. H. Lawrence on Walt Whitman. In Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature (1923)
Meats, Stephen An introduction to Walt Whitman from the Literary Encyclopedia, by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburgh State University, 30 September 2004
Mitchell, Jason Paul. Constructing Walt Whitman: The Critics Contend With the Good G(r)ay Poet, A short examination of the ways various literary critics have handled the topic of Whitman's homosexuality, by graduate student Jason Paul Mitchell, 1997 (removed from http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/walt.htm)
Murray, Martin G. "Pete the Great": A Biography of Peter Doyle. On Peter George Doyle, the streetcar conductor who was the object of Whitman's romantic friendship. Whitman Archive, from Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (Summer 1994), 1-51 (removed)
Murray, Martin G. Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals. Courtesy Whitman Archive, from Washington History: Magazine of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. 8 (Fall/Winter 1996-1997), 58-73, 92-93 (removed)
Parker, Hershel. The Real "Live Oak, with Moss": Straight Talk about Whitman's "Gay Manifesto." Whitman Archive, from Nineteenth-Century Literature 51 (September 1996), pp. 145-60 (removed)
Price, Ken Whitman and Slavery Part of The Classroom Electric: Whitman and American Culture, 2001
Price, Ken, Martin G. Murray, and Robert K. Nelson Whitman's Memory Part of The Classroom Electric: Whitman and American Culture, 2001
Price, Kenneth Sex, Politics, and "Live Oak, with Moss" Part of The Classroom Electric: Whitman and American Culture, 2001
Sarracino, Carmine Redrawing Whitman's Circle, on Whitman's devotees and disciples, in Fall 1997 Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
Sarracino, Carmine Dyspeptic Amours, Petty Adhesiveness, and Whitman's Ideal of Personal Relations, in Fall 1990 Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
Sarracino, Carmine Figures of Transcendence in Whitman's Poetry in Summer 1987 Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
Sloan, Gary Walt Whitman: when science and mysticism collide, in Skeptical Inquirer, March-April, 2003
Stifel, Timothy Whitman's Daguerreotypes: Objects of Democratic Union, in the footsteps of criticism on Whitman and the visual arts, this author investigates Whitman and photography. From Emory MOO, grad. student conference in Romanticism 1996
Tayson, Richard Back Down to Earth: On Walt Whitman's Preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass by Richard Tayson, from Academy of American Poets
Walt Whitman web site from Modern American Poetry Univ. of Ill, introductory web site has short excerpts of critical commentary from important critics, with sections on "One's Self I Sing"; On "I Hear America Singing"; On "As Adam Early in the Morning"; On "I Hear It Was Charged Against Me"; On "A Glimpse"; On "For You O Democracy"; On "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night"; On "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"; The 1860 Version of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"; The Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass; Whitman's "Song of Myself"; Critical Excerpts on Whitman and Syntax, Slavery, the Civil War, Labor, and Sexuality; Photos and Engravings of Whitman; About The American Civil War
The Whitman Archive a grant-funded project that "sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers." Edited by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, the archive contains a wealth of material, including critical and biographical articles on Walt Whitman
Teaching Whitman Projects from the Classroom Electric at the Univ. of Virginia.. Extensive web site projects created by scholars and Ph.D. candidates, covering topics on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
A study text for "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" to help readers trace the symbols of the lilacs, the star, and the hermit thrush through the poem. By Ann Woodlief, from the American Transcendentalism Web
The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review at the Univ. of Iowa provides titles and abstracts for the most recent edition of the publication and a secondary bibliography
The Library of Congress Whitman exhibit from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection
"Images of Walt Whitman: The Commercialization of an American Original" consists of colorful and whimsical items depicting Walt Whitman's name and image through commercial advertising material, including philatelic material, buttons, posters, pop art, advertisements, postcards, paintings, cartoons, photographs, bookseller's catalogs, sheet music, matchbooks, periodicals and labels. An online exhibit by the Burritt Library, Central Conn. State Univ
A brief biography of Walt Whitman from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
Introduction to Walt Whitman from the Heath Anthology of American Literature
Walt Whitman as a Transcendentalist, from the American Transcendentalism Web, Virginia Commonwealth Univ
Whitman in Washington (1863 - 1873) Kim Roberts in Beltway: a Poetry Quarterly
Very brief interpretions of "The Sleepers" from leading Whitman critics, Univ. of Iowa
An introduction to Leaves of Grass from the Academy of American Poets and a close reading of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
(removed) A lesson plan from the BBC for teaching Whitman's "Patrolling Barnagat" to high school students
Secondary bibliography for Walt Whitman from the web site "Infography"
Secondary bibliography for Walt Whitman prepared by Ed Folsom 1985-present, and William White 1975-1985. The bibliography is published by the Walt Whitman Review and is available both as a browsable, alphabetical list by year and a searchable database (removed)
Primary and selected secondary bibliography for Walt Whitman from Paul P. Reuben's bibliography web site
Selected secondary bibliography on Walt Whitman by Donna Campbell, Gonzoga Univ.
Inventory of the Roger Asselineau Walt Whitman Collection:1855-2001 at Texas A&M Univ
For a list of the author's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine from John Mark Ockerbloom that provides links to full texts on the internet
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