Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

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Literary Criticism

Asselineau, Roger Publisher's blurb for The Evolution of Walt Whitman (Univ. of Iowa Press)

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 review of "Whitman and the Homosexual Republic," in Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (Univ. of Iowa Press, 1994) reviewed 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

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

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

Smith, Ernest. "Restless Explorations": Whitman's Evolving Spiritual Vision in Leaves of Grass. Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2007

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

Baker, David. On Whitman's "Time to Come," New England Review, Summer 2002 (taken offline from findarticles.com)

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)(taken offline)

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)(taken offline)

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 (taken offline)

Murray, Martin G. Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals. Whitman Archive, from Washington History: Magazine of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. 8 (Fall/Winter 1996-1997), 58-73, 92-93 (taken offline)

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 (taken offline)

Web sites

Whitman manuscript, autograph revisions to "O Captain, My Captain." Facsimile from the Library of Congress.

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

Inventory of the Roger Asselineau Walt Whitman Collection:1855-2001 at Texas A&M Univ

"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. (moved or removed)

Introduction

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"

(taken offline) A lesson plan from the BBC for teaching Whitman's "Patrolling Barnagat" to high school students

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