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Roper, Robert. Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War [review]
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Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 27, no. 1/2
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 27, no. 1/2
An Ecuadorian Whitman Poem
Get PDFOffers a translation of a poem (“Pista de baile” / “Dance Floor”) about Whitman by Ecuadorian poet Roy Sigüenza and discusses the poem’s homoerotic theme and imagery
A previous unknown 1855 Albion Notice: Whitman Outed as His Own Reviewer
Get PDFExamines a previously unrecorded notice of the first edition of Leaves of Grass published in the September 8, 1855, issue of The Albion, which “becomes the earliest known outing of Whitman as a writer of his own reviews”; goes on to discuss the history of Whitman writing reviews of his own work
Useful Antagonists: Transatlantic Influence, Sectionalism, and Whitman's Nationalist Project
Get PDFArgues that, “faced with a splintering American nation and the possibility of a militarized Mason-Dixon line, the antebellum Whitman conceived of the Atlantic as the single relevant national border,” leading him—“in an improbable bid to exchange sectionalism for Anglophobia”—to attack “the obstacles of sectionalism and transatlantic influence by treating them as part of the same problem, building his reputation as an authentically American writer through a strategic conflation of sectionalist and transatlantic pressures”; examines how Whitman’s antislavery writings “pass over the South as the primary object of criticism, and . . . draw the transatlantic scene from the periphery to the center of the narrative of American slavery”; and reads a number of Whitman’s poems, including “A Boston Ballad,” in the context of Whitman’s attempt to use British contempt for the United States as a spur for pulling the nation together
Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 26, no. 4
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Handley, George. New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott [review]
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Portraits and Politics: the Specter of Osceola in Leaves of Grass
Get PDFExamines Whitman's "Osceola" and discovers the poem is a result of the poet's "piecing and pasting" his lines out of bits of George Catlin's description of Osceola and Catlin's recording of Dr. Frederick Weedon's account of Osceola's final days; argues that Osceola "remains merely symbolic for Whitman--a text to read and interpret.