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Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 26, no. 4
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 26, no. 4
Walt Whitman in Lancashire, 1886-2008
Get PDFOffers a history of annual Whitman celebrations in Bolton, England, where early socialist disciples of Whitman began honoring the poet in the 1880s, a tradition that, on and off, has continued to the present day; describes in detail the 2008 celebration
A Newly Discovered Photograph of George Washington Whitman
Get PDFDiscusses and reproduces a mid-1880s photo of Whitman’s brother George, taken by the photographer Philip Edward Chillman
Liminal Spaces: Literal and Conceptual Borderlines in Whitman's Civil War Poems
Get PDFReads Whitman’s Civil War poems “in the context of liminality, a cultural discourse that calls attention to margins and borderlines as transitional points but also focuses specifically on the ‘limen’ or the spaces between, as literal and conceptual sites of potential and illumination” and suggests that “in the more photographic poems, liminality provides Whitman with a framing technique, allowing him to sharpen his focus on the verisimilitude of a scene by delineating the outlines and interstices of the natural landscape,” while another use of liminality “calls attention to hospital spaces as literal and figurative symbols of transition for wounded or dying soldiers,” and yet another “mystical use of liminality allows Whitman to further define his role as an interpreting agent from the borderlines and margins of the war, the poet who gives meaning to the ultimate passage from life into death for all the nation’s dead.
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Spring 2009
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Samuel Johnson and Walt Whitman
Get PDFCompares Whitman and Johnson as “the oldest, wisest, and well-acknowledged leaders of their circle of close friends” and explores their mutual love of “affectionate conviviality and comradeship,” apparent especially in Whitman’s “late poem, ‘After the Supper and Talk,’” with its “poignant, even uncanny, affinity to Johnson’s thoughts, feelings, and habits.
"I didn't like his books": Julian Hawthorne on Whitman
No full textTraces how Julian Hawthorne “completely reversed his opinion” about Whitman “over the course of half a century,” from praise to condemnation
"My Dear Comrade Frederickus": Walt Whitman and Fred Gray
Get PDFOffers detailed biographical information (and two photographs) of Whitman’s close friend, Fred Gray, and examines the nature of what Whitman called the “Fred Gray Association,” “a circle of New York comrades,” some of them “highly literate and upwardly mobile,” who frequented Pfaff’s beer hall and had “ties to the nearby New York Hospital”; traces Whitman’s continuing associations with Gray and his associates throughout the poet’s life
Petroleum V. Nasby, Poet of Democracy, and His "Psalm of Gladness"
Get PDFReprints David Ross Locke’s parodic letter-poem (written in the persona of “whiskey-addicted Copperhead” Petroleum V. Nasby), “A Psalm of Gladness—The Veto of the Civil Rights Bill, and other Matters, occasioning a Feeling of Thankfulness in the Minds of the Democracy,” and analyzes how the satire “associates Nasby’s style of ‘jubilation’ with the poetry of Walt Whitman,” showing how “the satire does not attack Whitman’s verse so much as it condemns it by association with the style of Nasby.
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 2009
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