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Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter/Spring 2025
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Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 2024
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“Important Questions in Brooklyn:” Walt Whitman’s Earliest Known Contribution to the <em>New York Times </em>
No full textThis essay continues the effort to unearth Whitman’s correspondence in newspapers and highlights the recovery of a letter he wrote to the editor of the New-York Times that was published in the March 25, 1859 issue of the paper.This research includes historical and biographical context for the letter, as well as manuscript evidence of the poet-journalist’s authorship and revision of it. Appearing under the title “Important Questions in Brooklyn,” which Whitman seems to have provided, the letter centered on a surprising topic: the construction and management of Brooklyn’s in-progress waterworks and bore the signature of “CIVIS.” The recovery of this letter to the editor of the New-York Times is particularly significant as it is one of Whitman’s earliest known contributions to the paper. Henry Jarvis Raymond, a co-founder of the paper, was its editor at the time of Whitman’s contribution. The letter was published in the Times a little over a year before Whitman’s poem “The Errand-Bearers” (June 27, 1860), and it also predated by four years “The Great Army of the Sick,” the first of his articles for the Times chronicling his experiences as a volunteer in the Civil War hospitals of Washington, D.C
Editorial Introduction: Whitman and Correspondence
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“Building the House that Serves Him Longer”: A History of Walt Whitman's Tomb
Full text linkIn letters and conversations with friends and acquaintances, Whitman's ideas about his "burial house" gradually took shape over the four years prior to his death in March 1892. The completion of Whitman's tomb represented the culmination of a complicated series of decisions. While the location of Whitman's tomb, its design, and its cost are topics that have received various critical and biographical interpretations, this essay includes recently uncovered materials that provide a clearer understanding of the process that unfolded in the years prior to Whitman's death regarding his tomb. 
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 2023
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An Undetected Echo of Tennyson's "Ulysses" in Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
No full textThis discovery article explores the previously unrecognized semantic resonance between the concluding verses of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Ulysses" and Walt Whitman's poem "The Untold Want." The English and American poets were not only contemporaries but also friends who admired each other's work and corresponded over the course of two decades. In pursuing a daring Ulysses-like voyage "to seek and find," Whitman was paying tribute to his fellow poet's questing spirit. 
"Whoever You Are, We Too Lie in Drifts at Your Feet": Walt Whitman's Mystic Self in Jorie Graham's Water Poetry
No full textThis essay traces Whitman’s transcendental legacy as a mystic interlocutor between the divine and the eternal Universal Being and its reception in contemporary ecopoetic water poetry. This close study of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life" charts Whitman’s move away from viewing nature as a resource for human domination and exploitation towards a sense of our interconnectedness within nature as part of this Universal Being. Comparing Whitman’s transcendentalist American poetry with Graham’s contemporary ecopoetry, this essay examines how the different historical contexts of frontier expansion (Whitman) and erasure caused by the late-stage climate disaster (Graham) exert their different influences on the mystic, transcendental speakers of these poems. Consulting Graham’s “The Wake Off the Ferry” and “Ebbtide” in answer to Whitman’s poems, it explores how the climate crisis negates the possibility of eternity or any assurance of our value or place within the divine or eternal, and instead offers only the certainty of the moment, before that too begins to crumble
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter/Spring 2024
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Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 1/2
No full textFront Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 1/2