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Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter 2008
No full textWalt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter 2008
"Average-Representing Grant": Whitman's General
No full textExamines Whitman’s changing attitudes toward Ulysses S. Grant from the Civil War through the poet’s late conversations with Horace Traubel, analyzes Whitman’s poetry and prose about Grant, and shows how Whitman eventually “saw in the general and his critics a symbol of his own poetic battles against the canons of tradition.
A Branch on the Tree of Whitman: Martín Espada Talks about Leaves of Grass
Get PDFInterview with poet Martín Espada about what drew him to Whitman, how Whitman influenced him, and about the Whitman poetic tradition
Blake, David Haven and Michael Robertson, eds. Walt Whitman: Where the Future Becomes Present [review]
No full textTwo Unpublished Whitman Family Letters
Get PDFTranscribes two previously unpublished Whitman-family letters, one by George Whitman to his sister Mary in 1862 recounting his battle experiences, and one by Jeff Whitman to his sister Hannah in 1864 about family matters
Responding Kisses: New Evidence about the Origins of "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night"
Get PDFUses the recently discovered "military service records" of Bill and Arthur Giggie, including Arthur's letter to Bill's mother, Elizabeth Giggie, describing Bill's death, to "shed some additional light" on the Civil War episode that stands behind Whitman's poem "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night"; suggests that the evidence indicates that Bill and Arthur Giggie may have been a homosexual couple serving together in the Union army, and that Whitman's poem may in fact record the end of this "love story.
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 25, no. 3
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 25, no. 3
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 26, no. 1
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 26, no. 1
Walt Whitman's "Higher Progress" and Shorter Work Hours
No full textAnalyzes Democratic Vistas and other writings to demonstrate that part of Whitman’s conception of “higher progress” involved the attainment of freedom beyond basic necessities in order to gain “liberty’s ultimate challenge”—for “citizens to fill the purest of freedoms with activities that were complete in themselves”; goes on to track Whitman’s involvement in the movement to reduce working hours, increase leisure, and develop “labor-saving machines,” all of which formed “the obvious practical link between increasing material wealth and ‘higher progress’”; concludes by considering the influence of Whitman’s “higher progress” on John Maynard Keynes and on economists and historians of labor over the past fifty years
